Further Reading

The Canterbury Roll, a digital edition of fifteenth-century genealogical roll in New Zealand: http://canterburyroll.canterbury.ac.nz/

Bibliophilly, a collection of digitised medieval manuscripts in Philadelphia: https://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/

The “Edward IV Roll” (Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E 201), a large genealogical roll produced for Edward IV on the occasion of his coronation and available to view online at: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feature/medieval-edward-index

For a useful introduction to the Wars of the Roses (and fifteenth-century England generally), see https://www.warsoftheroses.com/

Carpenter, Christine. The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437-1509. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Griffiths, Ralph Alan. The Reign of King Henry VI. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2004.

Griffiths, Ralph. ‘The Sense of Dynasty in the Reign of Henry VI’. In Patronage, Pedigree, and Power in Later Medieval England, edited by Charles Derek Ross, 171–92. Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1979.

Grummitt, David. Henry VI. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Hicks, Michael. The Wars of the Roses. London: Yale University Press, 2010.  

Johnson, P. A. Duke Richard of York, 1411-1460. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Laynesmith, J. L. ‘Anne Mortimer’s Legacy to the House of York’. In The Mortimers of Wigmore, 1066-1485: Dynasty of Destiny, edited by Paul Dryburgh and Philip Hume, 213–41. Eardisley: Logaston Press, 2023.  

Lewis, Katherine. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Maurer, Helen. Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003.

Watts, John. Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Wolffe, Bertram Percy. Henry VI. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
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Allan, Alison. ‘Political Propaganda employed by the House of York in England in the mid-fifteenth century, 1450-1471'. Unpublished doctoral thesis. University of Wales, 1981.

Allan, Alison. ‘Yorkist Propaganda: Pedigree, Prophecy and the ‘British History' in the Reign of Edward IV.' In Patronage, Pedigree, and Power in Later Medieval England, edited by Charles D. Ross, 171–92. Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1979.

Anglo, Sydney. ‘The British History in Early Tudor Propaganda'. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 44 (1961): 17–48.

Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France, edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2009.

Drimmer, Sonja. ‘A Political Poster in Late Medieval England: British Library, Harley MS 7353’. In Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England, edited by Julia Boffey, 333–59. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020.  

Drimmer, Sonja. ‘Beyond Private Matter: A Prayer Roll for Queen Margaret of Anjou’. Gesta 53, no. 1 (2014): 95–120.  

Jones, Chris, Chris Thomson, Maree Shirota, Elisabeth Rolston, Thandi Parker, and Jennifer Middendorf  (eds). ‘The Canterbury Roll – A Digital Edition'. The Canterbury Roll Project (2017). http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/canterburyroll (last accessed 22 January 2024).

Laborderie, Olivier de. Histoire, Memoire et Pouvoir. Les Genealogies En Rouleau Des Rois d’Angleterre (1250–1422). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013.

Norbye, Marigold Anne. ‘Genealogies and Dynastic Awareness in the Hundred Years War. The Evidence of A Tous Nobles Qui Aiment Beaux Faits et Bonnes Histoires’. Journal of Medieval History 33, no. 3 (2007): 297-319.

Rajsic, Jaclyn. ‘Genealogies’. In The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, edited by Robert Rouse, Sian Echard, Helen Fulton, Geoff Rector, and Jacqueline Ann Fay, 1-6. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

Rajsic, Jaclyn. ‘Performing History in Royal Genealogical Rolls’. In Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England, edited by Julia Boffey, 316–32. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020.  

Rajsic, Jaclyn. ‘Expanding the Family: Royal Genealogical Rolls and the Prose Brut Chronicle’. In The Medieval Chronicle 15: Essays in Honour of Erik Kooper, edited by Sjoerd Levelt and Graeme Dunphy, 253–66. Brill, 2023.

The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages: Form and Content, edited by Stefan G. Holtz, Jörg Peltzer, and Maree Shirota. Materiale Textkulturen. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019.

Turner, Marie. ‘Genealogies’. In Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500 – 1500, edited by Elizabeth M. Tyler, Emily Steiner, and Jennifer Jahner, 84–100. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.