War, Government and Aristocracy in the

Crown-magnate relations, the Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-French and Anglo-Irish wars, national and local finance and administration and the nature of late medieval kingship are among the principal themes explored in this volume, along with aristocratic consumption, historical writing, chivalric culture and a review of recent work on crusading history. All newly commissioned from distinguished scholars, they shed new light on late medieval British political, military and governmental history. CONTRIBUTORS: NICHOLAS VINCENT, DAVID CARPENTER, M. L. HOLFORD, ARCHIE DUNCAN, MATTHEW STRICKLAND, BJORN WEILER, ROBIN FRAME, ANDY KING, W. MARK ORMROD, G. L. HARRISS, NORMAN HOUSLEY, ANNE CURRY, MAURICE KEEN, WENDY CHILDS

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Did Henry II Have a Policy Towards the Earls?	p. 1
The Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: Household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III	p. 26
Under-Sheriffs, The State and Local Society c.1300-1340: A Preliminary Survey	p. 55
Revisiting Norham, May-June 1291	p. 69
Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence: Edward I and the 'War of the Earl of Carrick', 1306-7	p. 84
The Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship	p. 114
Historians, Aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200-1360	p. 131
War and Peace: A Knight's Tale. The Ethics of War in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica	p. 148
The King's Secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III	p. 163
Budgeting at the Medieval Exchequer	p. 179
Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095-1291: Convergence and Divergence	p. 197
The Military Ordinances of Henry V: Texts and Contexts	p. 214
Chivalry and English Kingship in the Later Middle Ages	p. 250
Cloth of Gold and Gold Thread: Luxury Imports to England in the Fourteenth Century	p. 267
Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Prestwich	p. 287
Index	p. 293
Tabula Gratulatoria	p. 311
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