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It is like being a guest at the feast for an historian to review Illuminating the Book. Makers and Interpreters. Essays in Honour of Janet Backhouse, ed. Michelle P. Brown [...]

The Yorkists: The History of a Dynasty. By Anne Crawford. (New York, N.Y.: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 200. $29.95.) It is difficult to know of whom the publishers were [...]

by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt (London: John Murray, 2002; pp. xx + 444. 25 £). This is a thoroughly credible account of a notorious episode in European [...]

by Ken Farnhill (York: York Medieval P., 2001; pp. 237. 50 £). I wish I could speak better of this book. I would willingly do so if it did not [...]

by Judith Middleton-Stewart (Woodbridge: The Boydell P., in association with The Centre of East Anglian Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2001; pp. 328. 60 £). This is in every [...]

In Anger's Past. The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ithaca/London: Cornell U.P, 1998; pp. xi+256. 33.50 £; pb. 13.50 £), have the [...]

Chronicles the parliamentary session in Great Britain of January 1461. Footnotes discussed in Ralph A. Griffiths book 'The Reign of King Henry VI' and the 'Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship' by John Watts. List of Yorkist lords at the end of January 1461; Absent Lancastrians in the list.

The article focuses on the social conditions in England in the fifteenth century. According to the author, the gentrification of England took place in this century. It is the history of political, economic, social and cultural oppression by the English gentry of the English people that others have written about. The beginning of this gentry, which took over the English life, is discussed. October 1992 marked the end of the moral and economic bankruptcy of genteel English capitalism. In the first half of the fifteenth century, the English gentry were hammering the French, the English were kicked out of France in 1453. The internal colonization dates from 1450. The work peasant entered English usage in the sixteenth century, and violence existed in the English history from 1066 onwards. In 1450, the demonstrators behead a few notoriously corrupt politicians including the treasurer, and in 1536, the violence rose to a great degree. The reformation was undoubtedly the first modernist attack on a traditional culture.

Features books about the political history of England. "England in the Fifteenth Century: Collected Essays," by K.B. McFarlane, introduction by G.L. Harriss; "The Reign of King Henry VI," by Ralph A. Griffiths; "Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England," edited by Charles Ross; "Patronage. The Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England," edited by Ralph A. Griffiths.