Thirteenth Century England XIV: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011: 14
Author(s): Janet Burton (Editor), Phillipp Schofield (Editor, Contributor), Björn Weiler (Editor), Andrew Spencer (Contributor), Harmony Dewez (Contributor), John R. Maddicott (Contributor), Jörg Peltzer (Contributor), Joseph Creamer (Contributor), Julia Marvin (Contributor), Karen Stober (Contributor), Lars Kjaer (Contributor), Olga Mendez-Gonzalez (Contributor), Olivier de Laborderie (Contributor), Sophie Ambler (Contributor)
Publisher: Boydell Press
Publication Date: 17 April 2013
Language: English
Print length: 250 pages
ISBN-10: 1843838095
ISBN-13: 9781843838098
Book Description
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 McEwan, Jörg Peltzer, Karen Stöber, Olga Cecilia Méndez González, Sophie Ambler, Joe Creamer, Lars Kjær, Andrew Spencer, Julia Marvin, Olivier de Laborderie
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About the Author
JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history.
Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. 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.
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