England in the Later Middle Ages

This political history follows the English kingdom from the later years of Edward I to the death of Richard III at Bosworth in 1485. Keen traces the wars in Scotland and France, the fiscal and military demands they placed on the crown, and the recurrent crises of royal authority under Edward II, Richard II, and the Lancastrian and Yorkist kings. The narrative takes in the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the deposition of kings, and the Wars of the Roses. Alongside campaigns and parliaments he attends to law, lordship, and the gentry who staffed local government. It is a consecutive account of how medieval English politics worked and broke down.

Bound in dark blue cloth blocked with gilt image. Dark blue slipcase with series title in a pale blue panel on the front.