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A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent
from the earliest times to the present day. Kent, with its long
coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London
and continental Europe, and on major trading routes between Britain
and the wider world, has had a very significant maritime history.
This book covers a wide range of topics relating to that history
from the earliest times to the present day. It sets Kent's varied
coastline and waters in their geological and geographical context,
showing how erosion and sediment deposition have contributed to the
changing nature of maritime activities and populations. It examines
Kent's strategic role in the defence of the country with the
development and redevelopment of coastal defences, including four
naval dockyards. It goes on to consider the supporting industries
which grew up around the coastline, those which supplied raw
materials and agricultural products from the county's hinterland,
and its wider national and international trading links. It also
discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have
changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing
population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes
detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as
exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between 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 here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension.
Essays reflecting the most recent research on the thirteenth
century, with a timely focus on the Treaty of Paris. Additional
editors: Karen Stoeber, Bjoern Weiler The articles collected here
bear witness to the continued and wide interest in England and its
neighbours in the "long" thirteenth century. The volume includes
papers on the high politics of the thirteenth century,
international relations, the administrative and governmental
structures of medieval England and aspects of the wider societal
and political context of the period. A particular theme of the
papers is Anglo-French political history, and especially the ways
in which that relationship was reflected in the diplomatic and
dynastic arrangements associated with the Treaty of Paris, the
750th anniversary of which fell during 2009, a fact celebrated in
this collection of essays and the Paris conference at which the
original papers were first delivered. Contributors: Caroline Burt,
Julie E. Kanter, Julia Barrow, Benjamin L. Wild, WilliamMarx,
Caroline Dunn, Adrian Jobson, Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks, Tony K.
Moore, David A. Trotter, William Chester Jordan, Daniel Power,
Florent Lenegre
[The series is] a necessary addition for any scholar working in
this field. NOTTINGHAM MEDIEVAL STUDIES The articles collected here
bear witness to the wide interest in England and its neighbours in
the "long" thirteenth century; topics include the high politics of
the thirteenth century, international relations, the
administrativeand governmental structures of medieval England and
aspects of the wider societal and political context of the period.
Contributors: MAX LIEBERMAN, MICHAEL PENMAN, NICK BARRATT, LEIDULF
MELVE, ADRIAN JOBSON, XAVIER HELARY, ANDREW SPENCER, HENRY
SUMMERSON, CAROLINE BURT, ANDREW ABRAM, SUSAN STEWART, MICHAEL RAY,
INGO SCHWAB, BETH HARTLAND, PAUL DRYBURGH
Fruits of the most recent research into the "long" thirteenth
century. The idea of uncertainty forms a major theme throughout the
essays collected here; they tackle aspects of religious,
intellectual, political and social history, highlighting how
uncertainty, in many and varied forms, was conceptualized,
negotiated and exploited in the particular conditions of the long
thirteenth century. A number of the contributions explore
understandings of the cosmos and personal salvation, probing the
search for certainties on the partof ecclesiastical reformers,
practitioners of scriptural exegesis and writers of confessional
handbooks; there is also an investigation of the exploitation of
ambiguities around the fate of excommunicates. Other pieces turn to
politics and society, examining strategies of political
legitimation and resistance, the unstable politics of identity,
gendered experience and means used to regulate social order. As a
whole, the collection thus opens up diverse perspectives on, and
approaches to, the experience of uncertainty during a period of
rapid and often disorienting change. Andrew M. Spencer is an
Affiliated Lecturer in Medieval History at Cambridge University and
a Fellowof Murray Edwards College; Carl Watkins is University
Senior Lecturer in Central Medieval History at Cambridge
University. Contributors: Emily Corran, Kenneth Duggan, Lucy
Hennings, Felicity Hill, Adrian Jobson, Frederique Lachaud, Amanda
Power, Jessica Nelson, Andrew Spencer, Alice Taylor,
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.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between 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 here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension. LOUISE J.
WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln;
DAVID CROOK is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of
Notthingham. Contributors: Nick Barratt, Paul Brand, David
Carpenter, David Crook, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Philippa
Hoskin, Charles Insley, Adrian Jobson, Tony Moore, Alice Taylor,
Nicholas Vincent, Scott Waugh, Louise Wilkinson
Papers on aspects of the growth of royal government during the
century. The size and jurisdiction of English royal government
underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an
understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval
English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the
development of central government, law and justice, and the crown
and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy
and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal
Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the
rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a
licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of
local justice; women as sheriffs; and a Nottinghamshire study
examining the tensions between the role of the king as manorial
lord and as monarch. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, PAUL R. BRAND,
DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, ANTHONY MUSSON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT,
LOUISE WILKINSON
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