Open Access<b>Rosemarie McGerr</b>. <i>A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England</i>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xv, 212p. ISBN 9780253356413. $34.95
Author(s) -
Jennifer K. Sheehan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
rbm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2150-668X
pISSN - 1529-6407
DOI - 10.5860/rbm.13.2.386
Subject(s) - statute , history , law , political science
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes is McGerr’s study of the relationship between the illustrations and the text within a single manuscript copy of the New Statutes of England (or Nova statuta Angliae) owned by the Yale Law School. The manuscript bears the coat of arms of Margaret of Anjou, who was the consort of Henry VI. McGerr supplies a full codicological description of the manuscript (Appendix 2), as well as links between it and other known Lancastrian “mirrors for princes,” or works of advice about kingship. Her objective, as stated in the Introduction, is to explore the role of a . . .