Fifteenth-Century attitudes
Subtitle: perceptions of society in late medieval England
By: edited by Rosemary Horrox.
Contributors: Horrox, Rosemary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Public opinion -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.; England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485.
Description: This collection of essays takes a fresh and invigorating look at late medieval English society by focusing not on how people lived but on how they saw the world and their place in it. Alongside contributions on how different social groups saw themselves and were seen by others are more general discussions of key aspects of fifteenth-century life: attitudes to the rule of law, to the power of the ruler, to education, to honour and service and finally to death.

These essays, which include a selection of attractive and often unusual illustrations, create a unique introduction to a troubled and controversial century, which in the past has been seen variously as 'the waning of the middle ages' and the forcing ground of modern society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.