The Lancastrian Court [first edition]

These seventeen specialised and annotated papers form the proceedings of the eighteenth Harlaxton symposium held in 2001 which focused on the culture and identity of the Lancastrian court. The papers draw on a range of sources, including documentary evidence, seals, illuminated maps, badges, rood-screen paintings, textiles, statuary, heraldry and scientific texts, many of which are illustrated. Subjects include: Henry VI's court in France, images of Henry VI, a shield, Lydgate, surgeons, Henry VI and the proposed canonisation of Alfred the Great, textiles and maps, Duke Humfrey and Robert Broke, `Master of the King's Stillatories'.