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Kings, Barons and Justices
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 80.00This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation - the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267 - and is the first on any of the statutes of this period of major legislative change. more...
Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book examines the role of envoys in the period from the establishment of the first 'barbarian kingdoms' in the West, to the eve of Justinian's wars of reconquest. It makes a significant contribution to the developing field of ancient and medieval communication. more...
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00This is the first book in any language to deal with the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire in 888, as seen through the reign of its last ruler Charles the Fat. It argues against traditionally pessimistic views of this important period, offering new interpretations of early medieval kingship. more...
The Early Humiliati
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 59.00This book is the first major study in English of a group of late twelfth-century religious enthusiasts, the early Humiliati, who were condemned by the Church as heretics in 1184 but - in a remarkable transition - were reconciled seventeen years later and established a highly successful religious order in north Italy. more...
The English in Rome, 1362-1420
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 46.00This study centres on the early archives of the Venerabile Collegio Inglese in Rome. It examines the English community in Rome, in its political, commercial and religious setting, between 1362, when the first English hospice for poor people and pilgrims was founded, and 1420. more...
The Making of Gratian's Decretum
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 45.00Gratian's Decretum was a key text in the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century, and long remained a fundamental work. Professor Winroth has now discovered the shorter, original version of the Decretum, which invites a reconsideration of the resurgence of law in the twelfth century. more...
The Making of the Slavs
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 49.00This book offers a new approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700. The author shows how Byzantine authors 'invented' the Slavs, rejects the idea of Slavic migration, and shows that 'the Slavs' were the product of the frontier. more...
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 58.00This book shows just how much can be discovered about the so-called 'Dark Ages', offering a detailed analysis of the workings of society at the heart of Charlemagne's empire, and suggesting the need to rethink our understanding of political power in the early middle ages. more...
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 33.00A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society. more...
Brittany and the Angevins
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 44.00This is a political history of Brittany between 1158 and 1203, when it was ruled by the Angevin king of England, Henry II, and his successors. The book examines the process whereby Henry II gained sovereignty over Brittany, and how it was governed thereafter. more...









