Just like the modern hysteric, a figure that catalyzes clinical vocabularies confirming medieval theological anxieties, the demoniac has been considered an "anomalous" and "abnormal" manifestation of womanhood. Incapable of self-governance, both linguistic and corporeal, the med…
"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…
A plethora of the most important aspects of late medieval England are covered here, with a focus on Edward I. 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 ar…
