Preface 1. The dark glass of the fifteenth century 2. The country’s economy 3. The politics of Lancaster 4. York and Tudor 5. Religious life 6. Education and the arts 7. Society and government
Biography
J.R. Lander came to Cambridge University in 1940 and entered Pembroke College with four scholarships. He was Professor of History at University of Western Ontario. His university appointments took him abroad, first to the University College of the Gold Coast (University of Ghana) from 1950 to 1960, and then to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1963 to 1965.
Review of the first publication:
‘The best introduction to fifteenth-century English society. Its seven well-informed and balanced chapters survey the problems and achievements of Lancastrian, Yorkist and early Tudor government, assess the century’s economic vitality, religious life and cultural attainment, and most stimulatingly of all, discuss how aristocracy and monarchy discharged their common obligation to provide stable government…All medieval and Tudor historians should read this book: it gives to the fifteenth century an identity of its own—as an age of rich excitement.’
