Thirteenth Century England VIII

Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. HENRY SUMMERSON was awarded his Ph.D. by Cambridge University for a thesis on crime and law enforcement in England, 1227-1263. He has continued to work in this field, publishing numerous articles on aspects of medieval criminality, and editions, alone or in collaboration, of three crown pleas rolls, for Devon in 1238, Wiltshire in 1268 and Lancashire in 1292. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

This informative collection will be of considerable interest to all specialists in late medieval English history.

• The Knights in the Magna Carta Civil War - Kathryn FaulknerIrish Politics, 1220-1245 - Brendan SmithThe De Montforts in the Latin East - Peter W EdburyThe 'Petition of the Barons' and Charters of Free Warren, 1227- 1258 - David CrookWestminster Abbey in Politics, 1258-1269 - David CarpenterRobert Burnell and the Government of England, 1270-1274 - Richard HuscroftAn Anglo-Jewish Assembly or 'Mini-Parliament' in 1287 - Zefira Entin Rokeah'Mount the War-Horses, Take Your Lance in Your Grip ...' Logistics Preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294 - Mark VaughnEcclesiastical Mints in Thirteenth Century England - Martin AllenAttitudes to Capital Punishment in England, 1200-1350 - Henry SummersonManorial Courts in England in the early thirteenth century - Katherine J. MartinLove and War in 1294 - W Mark OrmrodGender, Law and Order in Thirteenth-Century Romance - Corinne SaundersMatthew Paris's Maps of Palestine - Paul D A HarveyThe Introduction of the Sarum Calendar into the Dioceses of England in the Thirteenth Century - Nigel Morgan