Description
This series is home to scholarship of the highest order covering a wide range of themes: from politics and warfare to administration, justice and society. The topics of the papers in this book range from the sublime to the macabre: romance, rape, money, politics and religion. Wide-ranging papers cover many themes: the role of knights in the civil war at the end of John's reign, the politics of Ireland at the time of Richard Marshal's rebellion, the crusading context of the de Montfort family, the Petition of the Barons of 1258, and the government of England during Edward I's absence on crusade form one group of papers which illuminate the politics of the period. The history of the Jews in their final days in England is examined, as are the techniques used to supply Edward I's armies. Legal matters are considered, with papers on manorial courts, capital punishment, and the offence of rape. Romance is treated in a historical context with Edward I's marriage plans of 1294. Also included is discussion of the dissemination of the Sarum rite, the building of Westminster Abbey, ecclesiastical mints, and Matthew Paris's maps. Contributors: MARTIN ALLEN, DAVID CARPENTER, DAVIDCROOK, KATHERINE FAULKNER, PETER EDBURY, PAUL HARVEY, RICHARD HUSCROFT, NIGEL MORGAN, MARK ORMROD, ZEFIRA ROKEAH, CORINNE SAUNDERS, BRENDAN SMITH, KATHERINE STOCKS, HENRY SUMMERSON, MARK VAUGHN.
About the Author
Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. HENRY SUMMERSON was awarded his Ph.D. by Cambridge University for a thesis on crime and law enforcement in England, 1227-1263. He has continued to work in this field, publishing numerous articles on aspects of medieval criminality, and editions, alone or in collaboration, of three crown pleas rolls, for Devon in 1238, Wiltshire in 1268 and Lancashire in 1292. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.
Reviews
This informative collection will be of considerable interest to all specialists in late medieval English history. * HISTORY *
Book Information
ISBN 9780851158129
Author Michael C Prestwich
Format Hardback
Page Count 218
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g
About the Author
Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. HENRY SUMMERSON was awarded his Ph.D. by Cambridge University for a thesis on crime and law enforcement in England, 1227-1263. He has continued to work in this field, publishing numerous articles on aspects of medieval criminality, and editions, alone or in collaboration, of three crown pleas rolls, for Devon in 1238, Wiltshire in 1268 and Lancashire in 1292. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.
Reviews
This informative collection will be of considerable interest to all specialists in late medieval English history. * HISTORY *
Book Information
ISBN 9780851158129
Author Michael C Prestwich
Format Hardback
Page Count 218
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g
