Crowland's World
A Westminster View of the Yorkist Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9879998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hicks (0000-0002-7603-7040, University of Winchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 298 |
| Pages | 172-190 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2648 • E-ISSN: 1468-229X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-229x.2005.00328.x |
| OpenAlex | W2116911727 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The Second Anonymous Crowland Continuation is the premier chronicle of the Yorkist age. It also provides unique access to the mental world of its author, a senior cleric in the royal secretariat, and through him to that of his milieu, the civil service at Westminster. He was a ‘fly on the wall’, who witnessed everything but apparently influenced nothing. He may not have understood all he saw, but he remembered almost all of it, including, most pricelessly, the successive changes of mind so often retrospectively rationalized out. Crowland emerges as a mixture of high principle and sometimes naivety, blatant prejudices and worldly cynicism. This article also shows that he was capable of silent criticism and even condemnation of the actions that he observed and executed. He offers important insights to his world
Civil service · Continuation · Criticism · Cynicism · Epistemology · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Public service · Service (business · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |