Political life in medieval England, 1300-1450

by W. M. Ormrod

This provocative study of English politics between the later years of Edward I and the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses challenges the trend away from constitutional and towards social history by arguing that, although governance may have been an elitist activity in the later Middle Ages, politics certainly was not, and that the major events of the period 1300 to 1450 - the Hundred Years War and the Black Death - served to politicise a large cross-section of the population. It also counters the recent preoccupation with the 'low' politics of the localities by arguing that England was a...

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