Crown & Parliament in England in the Later Middle Ages

Crown, Community, and Parliament in the Later Middle Ages.  Gaillard T. Lapsley.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1951.  Cloth, with dj, octavo, xiii + 420 pp.  Very good condition.  “Lapsley’s main concern as a historian was to elucidate the nature of English parliamentary institutions in their formative period and what he called the constitution ‘im Werden.’  Studies such as the famous ‘Parliamentary Title of Henry IV’ dominated thought and discussion from the moment of their appearance and will continue to dominate it for years to come.  His contribution to English history is, however, only fully apparent when his essays, written over a number of years, are set out in ordered sequence.  The present volume-as the editors indicate in their prefatory tribute-reveals how much the reinterpretation of the story of our medieval parliament, which has been one of the most notable features of English historical research in the last generation, owes to Lapsley’s acute mind and steady grasp of historical reality.”