Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
PREFACE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- The Meetings of Kings Henry III and Louis IX
- Counting the Cost: The Financial Implications of the Loss of Normandy
- Networks of Markets and Networks of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century England
- Three Alien Royal Stewards in Thirteenth-Century England: The Careers and Legacy of Mathias Bezill, Imbert Pugeys and Peter de Champvent
- The Eyre de terris datis, 1267–1272
- Joan, Wife of Llywelyn the Great
- Town and Crown: The Kings of England and their City of Dublin
- English Landholding in Ireland
- The Reception of the Matter of Britain in Thirteenth-Century England: A Study of Some Anglo-Norman Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
- Fearing God, Honouring the King: The Episcopate of Robert de Chaury, Bishop of Carlisle, 1258–1278
- Cloistered Women and Male Authority: Power and Authority in Yorkshire Nunneries in the Later Middle Ages
- Taxation and Settlement in Medieval Devon
- Clipstone Peel: Fortification and Politics from Bannockburn to the Treaty of Leake, 1314–1318
- Royal Patronage and Political Allegiance: The Household Knights of Edward II, 1314–1321
- ‘Edward II’ in Italy: English and Welsh Political Exiles and Fugitives in Continental Europe, 1322–1364
Summary
This volume contains papers delivered at the tenth Thirteenth Century England Conference, which met at St Aidan's College, Durham in September 2003. Speakers addressed a variety of themes in social, political, economic, ecclesiastical and cultural history, though (refreshingly) papers often move across two or more of those categories. Some contributors took up the customary invitation to deal with a ‘long’ thirteenth century (from late Henry II to early Edward III), or to look beyond the confines of England itself.
David Carpenter uses a minute investigation of some of the meetings between Henry III and Louis IX, and their wives, to develop a wide-ranging discussion of the similarities and differences between French and English kingship, and between the sources and approaches employed by historians on either side of the Channel. He counterpoints, on the one hand, the close ties, similar values and shared etiquette of the English and French courts, and, on the other, the sharply contrasting political skills of the two kings.
Four papers deal with aspects of English government, politics and society. Nick Barratt traces the long-term significance of the defence, and subsequent loss, of Normandy for royal finances. Only in the reign of Edward I did the monarchy again find a viable fiscal base after the dispersal of royal demesne begun by Richard I and the financial constraints imposed by Magna Carta in response to King John's exactions. Emilia Jamroziak analyses grants of markets and fairs under Henry III. Their variable frequency was linked to changing patterns of royal patronage and the crown's need for cash payments; but the demand for charters, particularly from lesser landholders, reflected the economic and social aspirations of recipients.
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- Thirteenth Century England XProceedings of the Durham Conference, 2003, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005