For members, a special benefit in 2003
Members will receive 500-page collection of essays

Anne F. Sutton has been a prolific author of books that advance our understanding of Richard III.

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Members of the Richard III Society normally receive the quarterly publication The Ricardian as one of the benefits of membership.

In 2003, the Society is celebrating editor Anne F. Sutton's twenty-five years at the helm of the journal with a special Festschrift to be published in March. This special publication will replace the four issues of The Ricardian for 2003.

This volume will contain 37 essays by members of the Society and medieval historians on a wide range of late medieval topics, from heralds' tabards and the admiralty seal of Richard of Gloucester, to books and readers at Calais and medieval vestments at Wells Cathedral, and from the Lancastrian claim to the throne and the inventory of a necromancer to the lives of individual men and women, such as John de la Pole and John Baret of Bury. These essays reflect in large measure the wide scope of Dr. Sutton's research interests.

We invite you to consider joining the Richard III Society now to receive a copy of this Festschrift in March.

Festschrift Contents

• Introduction, Livia Visser-Fuchs
• Bibliography: Being a List of the Published Work of Anne F. Sutton
• ‘You know me by my habit’: Heralds’ tabards in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Adrian Ailes
• Jane with the Blemyssh: a skeleton in the de la Pole closet -- Rowena E. Archer
• The Lancastrian claim to the throne -- John Ashdown Hill
• Ellen Langwith, silkwoman of London, c.1400-c.1482 -- Caroline Barron and Matthew Davies
• Freston Tower: An Ipswich mercer’s landmark? -- John Blatchly
• The Buckinghamshire six at Bosworth -- Lesley Boatwright
• Books and readers in Calais: some notes -- Julia Boffey
• Jacqueline of Bavaria in September 1425, a lonely princess at Ghent? -- Marc Boone
• The woollen textile industry of Suffolk in the later middle ages -- Richard Britnell
• Paris -- mirror or lamp to English medieval royal goldsmiths? -- Marian Campbell
• The admirality seal matrix of Richard, Duke of Gloucester -- John Cherry
• Three Gigli of Lucca in England in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century: diversification in a family of mercery merchants -- Cecil H. Clough
• Another medieval London widow: the story of Beatrice Cornburgh -- Margaret Connolly
• ‘More through fear than love’: the Herefordshire gentry, the alien subsidy of 1483 and regional responses to Richard III’s usurpation -- Sean Cunningham
• Joan of Arc: myth and reality -- Keith Dockray
• Reading images of reading -- Martha Driver
• The chapel-of-ease: symbol of local identity and ambition -- David Dymond
• John Stow and Lydgate’s Order of Fools -- A.S.G. Edwards
• Hoccleve’s portrait? in British Library Manuscript Arundel 38 -- Mary Erler
• The illegitimate children of Edward IV -- Peter Hammond
• ‘Our trusty and welbeloved servant and squire for oure body’: Nicholas Baker alias Spicer -- Bill Hampton
• Home or away? Some problems with daughters -- Alison Hanham
• William Estfield, mercer (died 1446), and William Alnwick, bishop (died 1449): evidence for a friendship? -- Rosemary Hayes
• Richard III, the great landholders and the results of the Wars of the Roses -- Michael Hicks
• Medieval vestments at Wells Cathedral -- Jean Imray
• ‘For my lord of Richmond, a pourpoint -- and a palfry: brief remarks on the financial evidence for Henry Tudor’s exile in Brittany, 1471-1484 -- Michael C.E. Jones
• ‘My image to be made all naked’: cadaver tombs and the commemoration of women in fifteenth-century England -- Pamela King
• ‘Morton’s Fork’? --Henry VII’s ‘forced loan’ of 1496 -- Hannes Kleineke
• ‘Plate, good stuff, and household things’: husbands, wives, and chattels in England at the end of the Middle Ages -- Janet Loengard
• The career of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln -- Wendy Moorhen
• The East Anglian Lollards revisited: parochial art in Norfolk -- Ann E. Nicholls
• St George of England:an edition of the sermon for St George’s Day from Mirk’s Festial -- Susan Powell
• The inventory of a fifteenth-century necromancer -- Carole Rawcliffe
• Books and pictures: an unlikely story of the brothers Paston -- Colin Richmond
• Scraps from Bury St Edmund -- Nicholas Rogers
• ‘A cloke not made so Orderly’: the sixteenth-century minutes of the Merchant Taylors’ Company -- Ann Saunders
• John Baret of Bury -- Margaret Statham