Edited by Jacqueline Rose, Lecturer in History, University of St Andrews

Michael Brown, Reader in Scottish History, University of St Andrews
Jeremy Catto, Emeritus Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford
Susan Doran, Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow, St Benet's Hall, Oxford
Eliza Hartrich, Fellow-by-Examination (Junior Research Fellow), Magdalen College, Oxford
Alexander B. Haskell, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Claire Hawes, doctoral researcher, University of St Andrews.
Paulina Kewes, Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, Jesus College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Alan R. MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
Roger A. Mason, Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews
Richard Rex, Reader in Reformation History and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge
Jacqueline Rose, Lecturer in Modern History, University of St Andrews
John Watts, Professor of Later Medieval History and Fellow and Tutor in History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

"The book has been well planned, with thirteen substantive chapters and a very long and valuable introduction. There is extensive cross-referencing, and evidence of discussion among contributors at the workshops that preceded the book. This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context." - Julian Goodare, History

"this is a superbly-edited collection that makes an excellent addition to the scholarship on counsel in medieval and early modern England and Scotland" - Aidan Norrie, The University of Warwick, Parergon

"a valuable selection of work on the interlinking thoughts on, and mediums of, counsel that breaks several conceptual and chronological boundaries and one that should form an indispensable resource for those interested in the theories, practices and problems of authority in medieval and early modern Britain." - Matthew Raven, Reviews in History

"This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context." - Julian Goodare, History