Phillipp Schofield & Björn Weiler 
Thirteenth Century England XIV [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011

Fruits of the most recent research on the thirteenth century in both England and Europe.


The articles collected here reflect the continued and wide interest in England and its neighbours in the years between Magna Carta and the Black Death, with many of them particularly seeking to set England in its European context.There are three main strands to the volume. The first is the social dimension of power, and the norms and practice of politics: attention is drawn to the variety of roles open to members of the clergy, but also peasants and townsmen, and the populace at large. Several chapters explore the manifestations and instruments of social identity, such as the seals used by the leading elites of thirteenth-century London, and the marriage practices of the Englisharistocracy. The third main focus is the uses of the past. Matthew Paris, the most famous chronicler of the period, receives due attention, in particular his changing attitude towards the monarch, but the
Vita Edwardi Secundi’s portrayal of Thomas of Lancaster and the Anglo-Norman Prose
Brut are also considered.


Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales: Trinity Saint David; Phillipp Schofield is Professor of Medieval History at Aberystwyth University; Björn Weiler is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University.


Contributors: J.R. Maddicott, Phillipp Schofield, Harmony Dewez, John Mc Ewan, Jörg Peltzer, Karen Stöber, Olga Cecilia Méndez González, Sophie Ambler, Joe Creamer, Lars Kjær, Andrew Spencer, Julia Marvin, Olivier de Laborderie

Tabella dei contenuti

Politics and the People in Thirteenth-Century England – John R. Maddicott

Peasants, Litigation and Agency in Medieval England: the Development of Law in Manorial Courts in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries – Phillipp Schofield

Medieval Accounting Memoranda from Norwich Cathedral Priory – Harmony Dewez

The Seals of London’s Governing Elite in the Thirteenth Century –

The Marriages of the English Earls in the Thirteenth Century: a Social Perspective – Jörg Peltzer

Monks and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Catalonia – Karen Stöber

Lope Fernández, bishop of Morocco: his Diplomatic Role in the Planning of an Anglo-Castilian Crusade into Northern Africa – Olga Mendez-Gonzalez

On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste’s Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement – Sophie Ambler

St. Edmund of Canterbury and Henry III in the Shadow of Thomas Becket – Joseph Creamer

Matthew Paris and the Royal Christmas: Ritualised Communication in Text and Practice – Lars Kjaer

Thomas of Lancaster in the
Vita Edwardi Secundi: a Study in Disillusionment – Andrew Spencer

John and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose
Brut – Julia Marvin

Genealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History – Olivier de Laborderie

The Genealogical Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Edition – Olivier de Laborderie

Circa l’autore

Andrew M. Spencer is an Affiliated Lecturer in Medieval History at Cambridge University and Fellow and Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular.