This book revisits the idea of a 'Feudal Revolution' in Europe between 800 and 1100, examining the causes of profound socio-economic change.

A reinterpretation of Richard II's reign and deposition from the perspective of one of the leading nobles who opposed him.

This book reassesses the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and the role of English nobility in thirteenth-century governance.

A reconsideration of aristocratic violence and the rise of the royalist French state from the Albigensian Crusade to Agincourt.

A study of the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England, in its political and constitutional context.

This pioneering study explores medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity.

This is an engaging study of how kingship and royal government operated in the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

A fundamental reassessment of England's relationship with the general councils, revealing how political thought, heresy, and collective politics were connected.