This volume explores the role of bishops at the heart of thirteenth-century English politics, examining their culture and political theology. Under King John an

Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop. Like their predecessors, these bishops were key members of the regnal community: anointe

The fruits of new research on the politics, society and culture of England in the fourteenth century.

Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a tra