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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Hannes Kleineke
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Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament
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An editor must never expect thanks (sometimes they come, but they must always be seen as a bonus). We must always remember that we are only midwives – if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.

It was in the early summer of 2010, in the final stages of the production of volume IX of The Fifteenth Century, and with a sigh of resignation, that Linda Clark quoted these lines from Diana Athill's autobiography. Unknown to her, at that point friends and colleagues past and present were already conspiring to prove them wrong. Now, the present collection of essays has reached completion, and the conspirators may come out into the open to offer them to their recipient as a mark of affection, respect and gratitude.

During a long career, Dr. Clark has placed the editing and promotion of the research of others ahead of the publication of monographs of her own: as an editor of the volumes of the History of Parliament for 1386–1421, and currently for 1422–1504; as general editor of The Fifteenth Century series, which incorporates many of the papers presented at the annual Fifteenth Century conferences (of which she has been a stalwart since their inception in the 1970s); as editor and coeditor of two special issues of the journal Parliamentary History, published by the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust, of which she is also a trustee; and as one of the convenors of the Late Medieval Seminar at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.

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The Fifteenth Century X
Parliament, Personalities and Power - Papers Presented to Linda S. Clark
, pp. xiii - xv
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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