(The Northern World.

(The Northern World.) Boston, Mass.: Brill. 2001 Pp xvii, 268 $10300 ISBN 90-04-12341-5

For many years historians and others were of the opinion, as E F Jacob one time observed, that fifteenth-century England was the "gloomy culmination of those disorders which it was the business of Tudor sovereigns to prevent" (Jacob, The Fifteenth hundred 1399-1485 [1961], p. v) The dissolution of the medieval institutions, the decline of the ecclesiastical authority recurring wars, and frequent outbreaks of the plague serv merely to strengthen that perception. More novel studies, however, ...

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