Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a tra

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.

Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world

Essays looking at the links between England and Europe in the long thirteenth century.

The essays collected here present the fruits of the most recent research on aspects of the history, politics and culture of England during the long' fourteenth