Editing John Fortescue (judge) (section)

==Further reading==
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* Callahan, Edwin T.  (1995), "The Apotheosis of Power: Fortescue on the Nature of Kingship". ''Majestas'' vol. 3, p.&nbsp;35-68.
* Cromartie, Alan.  (2004), "Common Law, Counsel and Consent in Fortescue's Political Theory", ''The Fifteenth Century 4:'' ''Political culture in late Medieval Britain'' p.&nbsp;45-68.
* Doe, Norman. (1990). ''Fundamental Authority in Late Medieval English Law''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|9780521384582}}.
* {{citation|last=Gill|first=Paul E.|title=Sir John Fortescue: Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Polemicist of the Succession Problem, Governmental Reformer, and Political Theorist [unpublished Ph.D. thesis]|location=State College, Penn.|publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University]]|year=1968|oclc=13557234}}.
* {{citation|last=Gill|first=Paul E.|title=Politics and Propaganda in Fifteenth-century England: The Polemical Writings of Sir John Fortescue|journal=[[Speculum (journal)|Speculum]]|year=1971|volume=XLVI|issue=2|pages=333–347|doi=10.2307/2854859|jstor=2854859|s2cid=154211521 }}&nbsp;– discusses Fortescue's role in the succession crisis between the [[House of Lancaster|Houses of Lancaster]] and [[House of York|York]].
* Gross, Anthony J. (1996), ''The dissolution of the Lancastrian kingship: Sir John Fortescue and the crisis of monarchy in fifteenth century England''.  London: Stamford, {{ISBN|9781871615906}}. [foreword by J. R. Lander].
* Jacob, Ernest Frazer.  (1953), "Sir John Fortescue and the Law of Nature", Jaccob, ''Essays in the Conciliar Epoch''. Manchester University Press, p.&nbsp;106-120, 247-248.
* Kekewich, Margaret Lucille.  (1998), "Thou shalt be under the power of man". Sir John Fortescue and the Yorkist Succession", ''Nottingham Medieval Studies'' vol. 42 (1998) p.&nbsp;188-230.
* Kelly, M. R. L. L. (2014), "Sir John Fortescue and the Political Dominium: The People, the Common Weal, and the King",  Galligan, Denis Ed., ''Constitutions and the Classics: Patterns of Constitutional Thought from Fortescue to Bentham'', Oxford: Oxford University Press.  
* Litzen, Veikko.  (1971).  "A war of roses and lilies. The theme of succession in Sir John Fortescue's works", ''Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae'' B vol. 173 (1971) p.&nbsp;5-73.  
* McGerr,  Rosemarie, (2011), ''A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, {{ISBN|978-0253356413}}.  
* Mosse, George L.  (1952),  "Sir John Fortescue and the Problem of Papal Power",  ''Medievalia et humanistica'' vol. 7 (1952) p.&nbsp;89ff.
* {{citation|last=Sobecki|first=Sebastian|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=9780268041458}}.
* Taylor, Craig David.  (1999), "Sir John Fortescue and the French Polemical Treatises of the Hundred Years War", ''The English Historical Review'' vol. 114 (1999) p.&nbsp;112-129.
* John L Watts, (1999) ''Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-521-65393-0}}.

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