This volume is offered as a tribute to Peter and Carolyn Hammond, who for decades have been an important force in the study of fifteenth-century England, and in particular the life and reign of Richard III. Among much else, they were vital to the foundation of the Yorkist History Trust, with Peter serving as a longstanding chairman and Carolyn as its first secretary. Their successors in 2025 (the year in which the Trust celebrates its Ruby Anniversary), Christian Steer and Richard Asquith, agreed that their manifold contributions to fifteenth-century studies should be recognised and celebrated with this Festschrift volume, which draws together thirty colleagues, friends, and admirers who have contributed essays on a wide variety of subjects and themes.

Reflecting the Hammonds’ own involvement in the field, which bridges the gaps between established academic historians, independent scholars, and those interested in medieval history, contributors include a range of perspectives, a testament to the vitality of the study of the fifteenth century, the Wars of the Roses, and the reign of Richard III. Essays cover microhistories to broad chronological surveys encompassing the later Middle Ages. Traditional historical studies sit alongside discussions of literature and art, and several contributions cross these disciplinary boundaries. The city of York – the Hammonds’ home – features prominently, as do areas relating to the Hammonds’ research interests, including leading figures from the Wars of the Roses, documents such as last wills and testaments, and cases drawn from England’s peerage.

Table des matières :

Heather Falvey – Peter and Carolyn Hammond and the Richard III Society Research Weekends (1991–2000)

Michael Hicks – The Politics of Parliamentary Precedence in Late Medieval England c.1300–1539

Anne Curry – Henry V and Charles VI in Troyes, 1420: The Meetings of Kings and Medieval Diplomacy

R.N. Swanson – The Afterlife of an Alien Priory: Alberbury (Shrops.), c.1414–c.1535

Ralph A. Griffiths – Migration, Social Mobility and Political Loyalties in the Fifteenth Century: The Kydwelly Clan

Margaret Kekewich – A Yorkist Propaganda Roll Revisited: British Library Harley MS 7353

Lynda Pidgeon – Barley Hall in Fifteenth-Century York

Adele L. Ryan Sykes – Priests, Property and Pleasure: Vicars Choral and Sex-Workers in Late Fifteenth-Century York

Sean Cunningham – Londoners, Legal Proceedings and Narratives of the Siege of the Tower of London in July 1460

Compton Reeves – Edward IV’s 1461 Enemies List

Tig Lang – The Royal Touch and Political Instability in the Fifteenth Century

Julia Boffey – The Yorkist Cause in Middle English Verse: Short Poems and Manuscript Contexts

Claire Martin – Seven Rings of Gold, Six Flitches of Bacon and Five Years of Hard Labour: Executing the Will of Sir Thomas Charlton (d.1465)

Livia Visser-Fuchs – Anthony Woodville’s Display of Heraldry and Chivalric Symbols at the Smithfield Tournament, 1467

Edward L. Meek – ‘Aske that is right or that is honest’: Yorkist Diplomacy in Action and the Diet of Utrecht, 1473–4

Marie Barnfield – The Treason Trial of Thomas Burdet and the Astrologers of 1477: Causes, Contexts and Consequences

Lorraine C. Attreed – Iberia’s Isle: The Yorkists and the Spanish Kingdoms

James Ross – Litigating for his Dues: Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Exchequer of Pleas

Richard Asquith – A Yorkist’s Legacy: The Grocers’ Company of London and Sir John Crosby (d.1476)

J.L. Laynesmith – The Sons of Edward IV: The Evidence on their Deaths Updated

Joel T. Rosenthal – Richard III’s Bishops: An Inherited Legacy

A.J. Pollard – Reflections on the Creation of the King’s Council in the North Parts by Richard III

Martha W. Driver – The Printer and the King: Caxton in the Reign of Richard III

James Petre – English Fortifications in 1485: The Decline of the Castle and the Beginnings of the Fort

Christian Steer – Loyalty in Life and Death: The Obligations of John Hardy, Tailor of London, died 1489

Michael Jones – Five Original Parchment Sheets Relating to the Accounts of Jean de Lespinay, Treasurer and Receiver-general of Brittany for Duchess Anne, 1489–91

Margaret M. Condon – Dead but not Forgotten: Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV and quondam Queen of England (d.1492)

Heather Falvey – Fifteenth-Century Mortuary Bequests

Livia Visser-Fuchs – The Pretender’s Tale, or, Did Perkin Warbeck Wear a Skirt?

Michael Bennett – Sir James Tyrell (d.1502) and the Tyrell Family of Gipping Charters

Simon Lambe – Crown and Gentry in Late Fifteenth-Century Somerset: The Case of Sir Amias Paulet (d.1538) of Hinton St George

Kenneth Hillier – Richard as Duke of Gloucester and King – A Novel Approach 1814–1913: A Century of Historical Fiction

Informations pratiques :

Loyalty Binds Me. Yorkist Studies for Peter and Carolyn Hammond, éd. Richard Asquith, Christian Steer, York, Yorkist History Trust/Shaun Tyas, 2025 ; 1 vol. Prix : GBP : 35,00.

Source : Yorkist History Trust