Foreign Influence in England
Through the policy of seeking foreign princesses as brides for the English kings, foreign influences crept in, and had a marked effect on the development of style. Moreover, increasing commercial intercourse with the Continent paved the way for the introduction of the new ideas of the Renaissance then beginning to dawn in Italy.
The Wars of the Roses checked progress in many ways, but this was but the more rapid when peace was restored with the advent of Henry VII.