"The fourteen studies in this book, by distinguished medievalists working in the same fields of late medieval British political, military and governmental history as Michael Prestwich, take up many of. the themes which have marked his contribution to historical scholarship." "Cr…
The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favorites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supp…
The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favorites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supp…
"This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantvariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and diplomacy, written at Canterbury in the mid-fourteenth century. The previous edition, published in 1914, was based on a manu…