Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. List of Contributors xi
6. List of Abbreviations xii
7. Politics and the People in Thirteenth-Century England 1
8. Peasants, Litigation and Agency in Medieval England: the Development of Law in Manorial Courts in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries 15
9. Medieval Accounting Memoranda from Norwich Cathedral Priory 27
10. The Seals of London’s Governing Elite in the Thirteenth Century 43
11. The Marriages of the English Earls in the Thirteenth Century: a Social Perspective 61
12. Monks and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Catalonia 87
13. Lope Fernández, Bishop of Morocco: his Diplomatic Role in the Planning of an Anglo-Castilian Crusade into Northern Africa 101
14. On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste’s Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement 115
15. St Edmund of Canterbury and Henry III in the Shadow of Thomas Becket 129
16. Matthew Paris and the Royal Christmas: Ritualised Communication in Text and Practice 141
17. Thomas of Lancaster in the Vita Edwardi Secundi: a Study in Disillusionment 155
18. John and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut 169
19. Genealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History 183
20. The Genealogical Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Edition 203