Fruits of the most recent research into the ‘long’ thirteenth century.
The twin themes of authority and resistance are the focus of this volume, explored through topics such as landholding and secular politics, the church and religious orders and contemporary imagery and its reception. Together, thepapers combine to illustrate the variety of ways in which historians of the ‘long’ thirteenth century are able to examine the practices and norms through which individuals and institutions sought to establish their authority, andthe ways in which these were open to challenge.
JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales: Trinity Saint David; PHILLIPP SCHOFIELD is Professor of Medieval History at Aberystwyth University; BJORN WEILER is Professor of History at Aberystwyth University.
Contributors: Helen Birkett, Richard Cassidy, Judith Collard, Peter Coss, Ian Forrest, Philippa Hoskin, Jennifer Jahner, Melissa Julian Jones, Fergus Oakes, John Sabapathy, Sita Steckel.
Table of Content
How did Thirteenth-Century Knights Counter Royal Authority? – Peter Coss
Power and the People in Thirteenth-Century England – Ian Forrest
Bad Sheriffs, Custodial Sheriffs, and Control of the Counties – Richard Cassidy
King’s Men without the King: Royalist Castle Garrison Resistance between the Battles of Lewes and Evesham – Fergus Oakes
Family Strategy or Personal Principles? The Corbets in the Reign of Henry III – Melissa Julian-Jones
Natural law, Protest and the English Episcopate 1257-1265 – Philippa M. Hoskin
Verse Diplomacy and the English Interdict – Jennifer Jahner
Thinking Politically with Innocent III: Prudence and Providence – John Sabapathy
Visions of Power: Authority and Religious Identity in Cistercian Exempla – Helen Birkett
Narratives of Resistance: Arguments against the Mendicants in the Works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour – Sita Steckel
The Visual Representation of Authority in the
Historia Anglorum of Matthew Paris – Judith Collard
About the author
RICHARD CASSIDY studied history as an undergraduate at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, in the 1960s. After retirement from a career in the gas industry, he returned to history, with an MA and Ph D in medieval history at King’s College, London. His Ph D thesis ‘The 1259 Pipe Roll’ is the basis for an edition of that roll to be published by the Pipe Roll Society. Since completing his doctorate in 2012, he has published several articles on thirteenth-century royal finance and administration. He has also written a book, Approaching Pipe Rolls: The Thirteenth Century, to be published by Routledge in the Approaching Medieval Sources series
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