ABSTRACT
England in the later Middle Ages is not renowned for its contribution to crusading. Despite this, on several occasions between 1350 and 1535 its people were called on to provide funds and forces for crusading enterprises, in expeditions ranging from that to Flanders in 1383 to the somewhat obscure offer of crusading privileges to those who would join Henry VIII in his war against Louis XII (supposedly to aid Pope Julius II) in 1512.1
Part of this article derives from a paper presented at the 40th International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo in May 2006. Some of the initial writing and research was undertaken in 2005-06, while I was holder of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, and also Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; much of the final version was produced in spring 2010, while I was John E. Sawyer Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.
