Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Royal Wills, 1376–1475 1
7. Propaganda, Piety and Politics in the Fifteenth Century: Henry V’s Vernacular War Letters to the City of London, 1417–21 17
8. ‘To Be of Oon Demeanyng and Unite for the Wele of Your Self and of the Contre There’: Yorkist Plans for the Lordship of Ireland, the Last Phase 35
9. A Mirror for a Princess: Antoine de la Sale and the Political Psyche of Margaret of Anjou 61
10. Margaret of Anjou and the Language of Praise and Censure 81
11. On ‘Peyne of their Lyfes … they Shuld no Verdit gif, but if they Wold Endite the Seid William Tresham of his Owen Deth’: the Murder of Lawyers in Fifteenth-Century England 99
12. ‘Stond Horeson and Yelde thy Knyff’: Urban Politics, Language and Litigation in Late Medieval Canterbury 115
13. ‘In to the Sterre Chambre’: Female Plaintiffs Before the King’s Council in the Reign of Henry VII 129
14. Index 145
15. CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS VOLUMES 155