Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England - The Troubled Realm

A reinterpretation of the political crises of the thirteenth-century England, wherein ideas are subordinated to interests; less an era of revolution, reform, and rebellion and more one of crisis, born of political instability but in broader institutional, administrative, economic, and legal contexts.

List of contents

• List of Abbreviations


• 1: The Whig Interpretation of Thirteenth-Century England


• 2: The Angevin Legacy and the Kingship of Henry III


• 3: The Impact of Royal Policy on the Nobility: Patronage, Appeasement and Privatization


• 4: Power and Profit in the Provinces


• 5: Reform and the Knights of 1258


• 6: Faction, Party and Affinity


• 7: Civil War


• 8: Simon de Montfort and his Support


• 9: Public Authority and the Provisions of Westminster


• 10: Resolution and Equilibrium, 1267-90


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

A doctoral student of Rodney Hilton at Birmingham, Peter Coss joined the board of Past and Present in 1984 and was a lecturer and subsequently professor at the University of Northumbria. He held the established chair of medieval history at Cardiff University from 1995-2013 where he became head of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion. He held a Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Pisa and Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen and Exeter
Colleges, Oxford. He was awarded a D. Litt. by Cardiff University for his contribution to knowledge and has published six monographs, three editions of historical documents, a dozen edited collections, and more than
50 essays.

Summary

A reinterpretation of the political crises of the thirteenth-century England, wherein ideas are subordinated to interests; less an era of revolution, reform, and rebellion and more one of crisis, born of political instability but in broader institutional, administrative, economic, and legal contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Coss, Peter Coss, Peter (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Histor Coss
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2024
• EAN: 9780198924289
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892428-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; England, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Politics & government, Medieval History, British & Irish history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Politics and government, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE