Thirteenth Century England XVIII

Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80543-057-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 260 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Thirteenth Century England

Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century.

The theme of this volume, "Exceptional England", follows on from that of the previous one, "England in Europe". Both respond to two long-term historiographical trends among British medievalists: to place England and Britain in a wider European context, and, conversely, to emphasise the differences between developments in England and those elsewhere, either explicitly or implicitly. The essays here, in tackling aspects of political, religious, cultural and urban history, are often concerned with shifts that transcend the "national" because they are driven by forces operating on a European, or at least a western European, scale. A number bring developments in England into conversation with those in other regions, turning not only to France, a traditional comparator, but also ranging further, using Poland, Italy, Spain and Hungary as points of comparison. Others problematise England's boundaries by considering the fates of people caught between worlds as English continental possessions shrank. If England emerges in these essays as rather less "exceptional", some of the contributions highlight its unusually rich sources, suggesting ways in which these riches might illuminate the history of Europe in the long thirteenth century more generally. Particular subjects addressed include the fortunes of the knightly class, the dynamics of episcopal election, and models of child kingship, along with new studies of Gerald of Wales and Simon de Montfort.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spencer, Andrew

Watkins, Carl

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bartlett, Robert

Bervoets, Leen

Coss, Peter

Dempsey, S. W.

Grabowski, Antoni

Hélary, Xavier

Irwin, Dean A.

Raven, Matt

Ward, Emily

Vincent, Nicholas

Zielinska, Agata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

King John and Gerald of Wales - Robert Bartlett
Why did the Number of Knights in France and England Fall in the Thirteenth Century? - Xavier Hélary
Provinces, Policies, and Popes: Comparing Polish and English Episcopal Elections Over the Long Thirteenth Century - Agata Zielinska
Magnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late-Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme? - Matthew Raven
Ugolino of the Gherardesca and the 'Enigma' of Simon de Montfort - Peter Coss
Breaking the Ties: The Cross-Channel Baronage and the Separation of England and Normandy in 1204 - Nick Hopkinson
A Typical Periphery: England in Late Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Cistercian Texts from the Continent - Antoni Grabowski
'A Star Lit by God': Boy Kings, Childish Innocence, and English Exceptionalism during Henry III's Minority, c.1216-c.1227 - Emily Joan Ward
Twilight of the Overkings: Edward I's Superior Lordship of Scotland as Paradox - Scott Dempsey
Exceptional Flanders? The First Strikes and Collective Actions of Craftsmen in North-Western Europe around the Middle of the Thirteenth Century - Leen Bervoets
Social Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry - Dean A. Irwin
Albion Adrift: The English Presence in Paris and its Environs after 1204 - Nicholas Vincent

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent, Nicholas
NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

Watkins, Carl
Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity).

Spencer, Andrew
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.