Chapter 5: England in the Fifteenth Century
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2023
Editor(s)
Peter Cane and H. Kumarasingham
ISBN
9781009277099
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Readers of this chapter might be left with doubts whether England had a constitution in the fifteenth century and whether, if there was one, it underwent any significant change over the century. Difficulties in governing the realm, ambiguities about power and authority, and a fundamental lack of consensus about what constituted and who had a legitimate right to rule persisted from the opening years of the period through to its end. The only notable progress recounted here was in procedures and practices in parliament. This difficult century left England with a hunger for new assertions of power and authority in the succeeding one.
Recommended Citation
David J. Seipp,
Chapter 5: England in the Fifteenth Century
,
in
Volume 2. The Changing Constitution
The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
108
(Peter Cane and H. Kumarasingham ed.,
2023).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3979
