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 486 Readings in European History Tudor Despotism: GREEN, Chapter VI, opening of sect. 3, on the " New Monarchy." CHEYNEY, Short History, pp. 278-284. Breaking up of the Feudal System: CHEYNEY, Industrial and Economic History, pp. 136-161. Joan of Arc: GREEN, pp. 274-281. Official report of her triaJ : COLBY, pp. 113-117. Louis XI and Charles the Bold : ADAMS, Growth of the French Nation, pp. 136-143; LODGE, Chapter XVI, pp. 349-393- The following are the best special treatments of English history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : TREVELYAN, England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1899. LONGMAN, The Life and Times of Edward III, 1869. Still the best work for the period. GASQUET, The Great Pestilence, 1348-7349, 1893. RAMSAY, Lancaster and York, 1399-1485, 2 vols., 1892. WYLIE, History of England under Henry IV, 4 vols., 1884-1898. Very detailed and exhaustive. BUSCH, England under the Tudors, Vol. I. LOWELL, Joan of Arc. GREEN, MRS. J. R., Town Life in England in the Fifteenth Century, z vols. KlRK, Charles the Bold. Rather antiquated and rhetorical but based upon careful research. The Chronicles of Froissart, edited by MACAULAY (Globe edition), carefully condensed into one volume. The Chronicles of Commines, 2 vols. (Bohn Library). The Paston Letters, edited by GAIRDNER, 1875. These " are the first instance in England of a family correspondence, and throw great light on the social history of the time " (Green). FRAZER, English History illustrated from the Original Sources, I 37~ I 399- This contains a great variety of extracts. Compare excellent bibliographies given by ANDREWS, History oj England, pp. 196-197 and 229-230, and CHEYNEY, Short History, pp. 262-263 and 276-277. C. Materials Histoire de France, edited by LAVISSE, Vol. Ill, Part II, on Philip for advanced the Fair and Boniface VIII. COVILLE contributes Vol. IV, Part I, of the Histoire de France, on the period of the Hundred Years' War. Excellent.