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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.
Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals
and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring
counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context
of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also
offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its
periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight
that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study
suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in
medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the
later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society,
especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where
there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of
chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed
light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of
the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique
insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in
representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is
examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the
project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on
seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over
the high and later Middle Ages.
A story of love, passion, tragedy and betrayal across two
continents when naive computer programmer Madeleine has a chance
meeting with worldly-wise translator Rick on a flight to Los
Angeles. While staying at his log cabin in the mountains she is
drawn into his shadowy past when he confronts his personal shame
over his wife's death. Now carrying his child, their romance is
interrupted when Madeleine returns to England to see her dying
father but when Rick mysteriously disappears, Madeleine has little
option than to marry her former boyfriend Jeff. Nearly two decades
later and with a teenage son, she is astonished when a letter from
Rick, now in London, asks her to contact him. They meet and he
whisks her off to Paris for two days. They realise their love for
each other has never died, Rick wants her to stay and spend their
life together in Paris. She returns home torn between her duty to
her family and love for Rick and wonders if she has the courage to
make the right decision for her own happiness.
A comprehensive catalogue of and guide to three centuries of seals
from London and its environs. Seals were not just a functional
device; they were used as tools of authentication, validation, and
security - and provided a means for both individuals and corporate
identites to represent themselves. The seals gathered here, inthis
lavishly-illustrated guide and catalogue (the first substantial
volume to be devoted to the seals of a medieval urban community),
are representative of those that survive from London from the
period c.1050 - c.1300; they aredrawn from some of the most
important and significant collections, including the National
Archives, the London Metropolitan Archives, and the archives of
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital. Colour images of the seals themselves
are accompanied by detailed descriptions, while an extensive index
serves as an invaluable tool for the navigation of the complex
personal nomenclature of the period. Dr John McEwan is a
post-doctoral researcher at the Centerfor Digital Humanities at
Saint Louis University, Missouri.
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