title: Political culture in later medieval England: Essays by Simon Walker
author: Mike Braddick
description: <br>Simon Walker was Reader in History at the University of Sheffield until his death in 2004<br>
zlib_text: From Kingdom to Commonwealth 
  Harvard Political Studies 
  Published under the direction 
  of the Department of Government 
  in Harvard University 
  
  From Kingdom 
  to 
  Commonwealth 
  The Development of Civic Consciousness 
  in English Political Thought 
  by Donald W. Hanson 
  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 
  1970 
  
  © Copyright 1970 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All 
  rights reserved. Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, 
  London. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-105371. SBN 674-
  32475-7. Printed in the United States of America. 
  
  To My Wife 
  
  Preface 
  This book deals with political ideas and practices in late medieval 
  and early modern England. Its major preoccupation is an effort to 
  discern and evaluate the lines of continuity and change in the re-
  lation between medieval and early modern political perspectives 
  and styles, especially as these bear on the development of consti-
  tutionalized politics. It offers a political inter