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Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the emphases and accentuations of his present-day successors. Characterised by its conception of community, its constitutionalism, its ready identification of a national enterprise, and its predilection for idealism and 'progressive' thinking, this framework remains close to the Whig interpretation of English history. It is reinforced by the continuation of reverence for the baronial leader, Simon de Montfort.
In contrast, Peter Coss offers here an alternative approach to the period which is anchored in social mores and cultural values. More emphasis is placed upon the interests, ambitions, and needs of contemporaries, upon social networks of various kinds, and upon how interests both clashed and cohered as people strove to improve or preserve their situations. This was a crisis born of political instability, but in the context of institutional, administrative, and legal growth, that is to say at a particular point in the evolution of the state. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book reconsiders the generation of the crisis, the factors which influenced its course, and its (partial) resolution. In short, it explores the anatomy and physiology of a troubled realm.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
1: The Whig Interpretation of Thirteenth-Century England
2: The Angevin Legacy and the Kingship of Henry III
3: The Impact of Royal Policy on the Nobility: Patronage, Appeasement and Privatization
4: Power and Profit in the Provinces
5: Reform and the Knights of 1258
6: Faction, Party and Affinity
7: Civil War
8: Simon de Montfort and his Support
9: Public Authority and the Provisions of Westminster
10: Resolution and Equilibrium, 1267-90
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
