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Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258-1267 (Hardcover)
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Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258-1267 (Hardcover)
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New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century.
The years between 1258 and 67 comprise one of the most influential
periods in the Middle Ages in England. This turbulent decade
witnessed a bitter power struggle between King Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays collected here offer the most recent research into and
ideas onthis pivotal period. Several contributions focus upon the
roles played in the political struggle by particular sections of
thirteenth-century society, including the Midland knights and their
political allegiances, aristocratic women, and the merchant elite
in London. The events themselves constitute the second major theme
of this volume, with subjects such as the secret revolution of
1258, Henry III's recovery of power in 1261, and the little studied
maritime theatre during the civil wars of 1263-7 being considered.
Adrian Jobson is an Associate Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church
University. Contributors: Sophie Ambler, Nick Barratt, David
Carpenter, PeterCoss, Mario Fernandes, Andrew H. Hershey, Adrian
Jobson, Lars Kjaer, John A. McEwan, Tony Moore, Fergus Oakes, H.W.
Ridgeway, Christopher David Tilley, Benjamin L. Wild, Louise J.
Wilkinson.
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