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Contents
List of Contributors vi
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations viii
Genealogy of Edward I x
Introduction 1
Andy King and Andrew M. Spencer
1. The Lord Edward and the Administration of Justice across his
Apanage, 1254–72 9
Rod Billaud
2. A Tale of Two Ministers: Robert Burnell, Walter Langton and the
Government of Edward I 24
Richard Huscroft
3. Law and Order in the Reign of Edward I: Some New Thoughts 44
Caroline Burt
4. Magnates, Ritual and Commensality at Royal Assemblies: Bogo de
Clare and Edward I’s Easter Parliament, 1285 66
Lars Kjœr
5. Royal Daughters and Diplomacy at the Court of Edward I 84
Louise J. Wilkinson
6. Hearts and Bodies: Edward I and the Scottish Magnates, 1296–1307 105
Michael Brown
7. Edward I and the Blessed Virgin Mary 125
Charles Farris
8. Letters and Political Discourse under Edward I 143
Kathleen Neal
9. Crisis? What Crisis? 1297 and the Civil War that Never Was 163
Andy King
Index 185
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Contributors
Rod Billaud Independent Scholar
Michael Brown Professor of Scottish History, University of St Andrews
Caroline Burt Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Charles Farris Public Historian for the History of the Monarchy,
Historic Royal Palaces
Richard Huscroft Head of History, Westminster School
Andy King Lecturer in History, University of Southampton
Lars Kjœr Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, New College of the
Humanities, London
Kathleen Neal Lecturer in History, School of Philosophical, Historical
and International Studies, Monash University
Andrew M. Spencer Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Louise J. Wilkinson Professor of Medieval History, Canterbury Christ
Church University
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Acknowledgments
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for their patience.
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good-humoured efficiency and boundless enthusiasm; and Peter Biller, at York
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anonymous reader.
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costs from the Department of History and from the Dean of Humanities Fund at
the University of Southampton.
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Abbreviations
Ann. Mon. Annales monastici, ed. H. R. Luard, RS 36, 5 vols.
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BL British Library, London
Burt, Governance C. Burt, Edward I and the Governance of England,
1272–1307 (Cambridge, 2013)
CChR Calendar of the Charter Rolls
CCR Calendar of the Close Rolls
CDI Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, ed. H. S.
Sweetman, 5 vols. (London, 1875–86)
CDS Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, ed. J.
Bain et al., 5 vols. (London, 1881–1986)
CFR Calendar of the Fine Rolls
Chronicles, ed. Stubbs Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II,
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Cotton, ed. Luard Bartholomæi de Cotton monachi norwicensis Historia
anglicana (AD 449–1298), ed. H. R. Luard, RS 16
(1859)
CPR Calendar of the Patent Rolls
CR Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, 14 vols. (HMSO,
1902–38)
EHD English Historical Documents 1189–1327, ed. and trans.
H. Rothwell (London, 1975)
EHR English Historical Review
Fœdera Fœdera, conventiones, litteræ, et cujuscunque generis
publica, ed. T. Rymer, 4 vols. in 7 parts (Record
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Guisborough, ed. Rothwell The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, ed. H.
Rothwell, Camden Society, 3rd s., 89 (London, 1957)
McFarlane, Nobility K. B. McFarlane, The Nobility of Later Medieval
England: The Ford Lectures for 1953 and Related
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Morris, Edward I Marc Morris, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I
and the Forging of Britain (London, 2008)
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Abbreviations ix
ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford,
2004); (online edn, 2008, available at http://www.
oxforddnb.com)
Paris, CM, ed. Luard Matthaei Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica
Majora, ed. H. R. Luard, 7 vols., RS 57 (1872–83)
Parl. Writs The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military
Summons, ed. F. Palgrave, 2 vols. in 4 parts (Record
Commission, 1827–34)
PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. C. Given-
Wilson et al. (Woodbridge, 2005) (available online
at: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/
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Prestwich, Edward I M. Prestwich, Edward I, 2nd edn (London and New
Haven, 1997)
Rishanger, ed. Riley Willelmi Rishanger, quondam monachi S. Albani,
et quorundam anonymorum, chronica et annales,
regnantibus Henrico Tertio et Edwardo Primo: AD
1259–1307, ed. H. T. Riley, RS 28 (London, 1865)
RS Rolls Series
Rot. Scot. Rotuli Scotiae in Turri Londonensi et in Domo
Capitulari Westmonasteriensi, ed. D. MacPherson, 2
vols. (Record Commission, 1814–19)
Spencer, Nobility A. M. Spencer, Nobility and Kingship in Medieval
England: The Earls and Edward I, 1272–1307
(Cambridge, 2013)
TCE Thirteenth Century England, ed. P. Coss et al.
(Woodbridge, 1986–)
TNA The National Archives, Kew
Trivet, ed. Hog Nicholai Triveti, Annales sex regum Angliae, ed. T.
Hog, English Historical Society (1845)
