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Book SynopsisNewly edited documents and commentaries published in honour of one of our foremost historians of English medieval political society Different from most festschriften, this wide-ranging volume brings together a rich collection of newly edited documents accompanied by commentaries which both set them in context and highlight their importance for historians of medieval England. Among the many topics covered are the Magna Carta rebellion, the Baronial Wars of the 1260s, the feeding of the royal household, the estates of the thirteenth-century nobility, gentry material culture as revealed by inventories, the workings of the law in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and local political life in Richard II's reign. The volume will be published jointly with the Pipe Roll Society, and the distinguished team of contributors will include both friends and former pupils of the honorand.
Table of Contents'The Last Pilgrimage of Stephen Count of Brittany' Hugh Doherty 'The Charters of Robert fitz Hamo: A Diplomatic Analysis' Nicholas Karn 'A Political Nightmare: Henry II, Becket and the Dream Narrative' Alice Taylor 'Roger of Howden's Documents: Kings and Taxation in England at the end of the Twelfth Century' John Gillingham 'The De Vere Lands in Normandy, c. 1204' Daniel Power 'New Evidence on the Magna Carta Rebellion' Nicholas Vincent 'Richard of Cornwall's Tintagel: Making Arthur Matter' Joerg Peltzer 'Friendship (Amicitia) in the Politics of Mid-Thirteenth Century England' Peter Coss 'An English Cartulary Roll of Peter of Savoy, Lord of Richmond (1240-1268): Archives, Interests and Servants of an Alien Favourite of Henry III' Huw Ridgeway 'Bolingbroke Charters' Louise Wilkinson The Morton Incident: Lordship, Rebellion and Divided Loyalties during the First English Revolution Adrian Jobson 'The Surrender of Gloucester Castle in June 1265' Sophie Ambler 'A Royal Buttery Book of 1272' David Carpenter 'The 1294 "Inquiry" (aprisa) into the Alleged Crimes of Katherine Widow of Simon Constable' Paul Brand 'Accounts concerning Elizabeth, Countess of Holland, 1297-1300' Kathleen B. Neal 'Thomas of Lancaster and the Enforcement of the Ordinances, 1314-17' Scott Waugh 'Sealing Disinheritance: Thomas of Lancaster and the Earldom of Ferrers, 1296-1322' Anthony Gross 'For Queen and Country: the Interim Administration of Isabella and Edward of Windsor, September-December 1326' Paul Dryburgh 'Petitioning for Justice in a Time of Transitions: John Whittlebury's Complaint of 1336' Anthony Verduyn 'Knightly Magnificence and Marital Drama: the de la Beche Inventory of 1347' John Blair 'Sir Robert de Mauley, King Edward III, and the Building Works at the Royal Manor of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, 1348-50' David Crook 'The Leicestershire Gentry and the Oath to uphold the Acts of the Merciless Parliament, 1388' Nigel Saul
