Ten papers selected from the 1987 Winchester Conference explore the rise of new professionals and the accumulation of wealth that eventually allowed the competent upstarts to join the peerage. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Michael Hicks (born 1948) is an English historian, specialising on the history of late medieval England, in particular the Wars of the Roses. Hicks studied with C. A. J. Armstrong and Charles Ross while a student at the University of Bristol. He is today Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.