Exceptional Flanders? The First Strikes and Collective Actions of Craftsmen in North-Western Europe around the Middle of the Thirteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS viii
5. ABBREVIATIONS ix
6. INTRODUCTION xi
7. King John and Gerald of Wales 1
8. Why did the Number of Knights in France and England Fall in the Thirteenth Century? 13
9. Provinces, Policies, and Popes: Comparing Polish and English Episcopal Elections Over the Long Thirteenth Century 29
10. Magnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late-Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme? 47
11. Ugolino of the Gherardesca and the ‘Enigma’ of Simon de Montfort 71
12. Breaking the Ties: The Cross-Channel Baronage and the Separation of England and Normandy in 1204 89
13. A Typical Periphery: England in Late Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Cistercian Texts from the Continent 107
14. ‘A Star Lit by God’: Boy Kings, Childish Innocence, and English Exceptionalism during Henry III’s Minority, c. 1216–c. 1227 125
15. Twilight of the Overkings: Edward I’s Superior Lordship of Scotland as Paradox 147
16. Exceptional Flanders? The First Strikes and Collective Actions of Craftsmen in North-Western Europe around the Middle of the Thirteenth Century 167
17. Social Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry 189
18. Albion Adrift: The English Presence in Paris and its Environs after 1204 209