Editing John Fortescue (judge) (section)

==Legacy==
John Fortescue's description of England's mixed monarchy as a ''dominium politicum et regale'' (a political and regal kingdom) has been profoundly influential in the history of British constitutional thought. During the 20th century, the earlier portrayal of Fortescue as a constitutionalist has come under pressure from legal and constitutional historians.<ref>{{citation|author=Charles Howard McIlwain|author-link=Charles Howard McIlwain|title=The Growth of Political Thought in the West: From the Greeks to the End of the Middle Ages|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]|year=1932|page=359|oclc=494805}}, and {{citation|author=S. B. Chrimes|title=Sir John Fortescue and His Theory of Dominion|journal=[[Royal Historical Society|Transactions of the Royal Historical Society]]|year=1934|volume=17|issue=4th series|pages=117–147|doi=10.2307/3678523 |jstor=3678523|s2cid=155648025 }}.</ref> Scholars of literature have taken an interest in Fortescue's contribution to the development of English prose,<ref>See, for instance, {{citation|author=James Simpson|chapter=Reginald Peacock and John Fortescue|editor=A. S. G. Edwards|title=A Companion to Middle English Prose|location=Cambridge|publisher=D. S. Brewer|year=2004|pages=271–287|isbn=978-1-84384-018-3}}.</ref> and in his role as a Lancastrian writer.<ref name="Strohm">{{citation|author=Paul Strohm|title=Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare|location=South Bend, Ind.|publisher=[[University of Notre Dame Press]]|year=2005|isbn=978-0-268-04114-4}}.</ref> More recently, Fortescue's constitutional thought has been reassessed and his Lancastrian affiliation has been challenged.<ref name="Sobecki">See {{citation|author=Sebastian Sobecki|title=Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463–1549|location=Notre Dame, Ind.|publisher=University of Notre Dame Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-268-04145-8}}, a study of Fortescue's influence on late medieval and early Tudor thought.</ref>

To this day the John Fortescue Society is joined by students of law at [[Exeter College, Oxford]].<ref>See, for example, {{citation|title=John Fortescue Society Dinner|url=http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/836|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018153805/http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/node/836|archive-date=18 October 2013|publisher=[[Exeter College, Oxford]]|year=2013}}.</ref>