Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. The Efficiency of English Royal Administration in the Last Years of Edward I 21
7. Government and Market in the Early Fourteenth Century 37
8. Kings’ Clerks: The Essential Tools of Government 59
9. Edward II: Favourites, Loyalty and Kingship 77
10. The Perils of Lordship: The Life and Death of William Tuchet (c. 1275–1322) 93
11. ‘War’, ‘Rebellion’ or ‘Perilous Times’? Political Taxonomy and the Conflict in England, 1321–2 113
12. The Carlisle Roll of Arms and the Political Fabric of Military Service under Edward III 133
13. What’s in a Title? Comital Development, Political Pressures and Questions of Purpose in Fourteenth-Century England 163
14. Edward the Black Prince: Lordship and Administration in the Plantagenet Empire 185
15. ‘Said the Mistress to the Bishop’: Alice Perrers, William Wykeham and Court Networks in Fourteenth-Century England 205
16. The Politics of Surrender: Treason, Trials and Recrimination in the 1370s 227
17. Richard II in the Mirror of Christendom 263
18. Bibliography 289
19. Index 293
20. Tabula Gratulatoria 308