Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Did Henry II Have a Policy Towards the Earls?
- The Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: Household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III
- Under-Sheriffs, The State and Local Society c.1300–1340: A Preliminary Survey
- Revisiting Norham, May–June 1291
- Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence: Edward I and the ‘War of the Earl of Carrick’, 1306–7
- The Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship
- Historians, Aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200–1360
- War and Peace: A Knight's Tale. The Ethics of War in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica
- The King's Secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III
- Budgeting at the Medieval Exchequer
- Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095–1291: Convergence and Divergence
- The Military Ordinances of Henry V: Texts and Contexts
- Chivalry and English Kingship in the Later Middle Ages
- Cloth of Gold and Gold Thread: Luxury Imports to England in the Fourteenth Century
- Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Prestwich
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoriad
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Did Henry II Have a Policy Towards the Earls?
- The Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: Household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III
- Under-Sheriffs, The State and Local Society c.1300–1340: A Preliminary Survey
- Revisiting Norham, May–June 1291
- Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence: Edward I and the ‘War of the Earl of Carrick’, 1306–7
- The Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship
- Historians, Aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200–1360
- War and Peace: A Knight's Tale. The Ethics of War in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica
- The King's Secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III
- Budgeting at the Medieval Exchequer
- Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095–1291: Convergence and Divergence
- The Military Ordinances of Henry V: Texts and Contexts
- Chivalry and English Kingship in the Later Middle Ages
- Cloth of Gold and Gold Thread: Luxury Imports to England in the Fourteenth Century
- Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Prestwich
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoriad
Summary
As the only child of two celebrated Oxford historians, one of whom (J. O. Prestwich) specialised in the twelfth century and the other (born Menna Roberts) in the sixteenth and seventeenth, it might be thought that there was something preordained about Michael Prestwich's decision to devote his academic career to study of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Born in Oxford in 1943, he was educated at Charterhouse before reading history at Magdalen College Oxford, from which he graduated with first-class honours in 1964. He undertook research for his doctorate at Christ Church, where he was firstly Senior Scholar, then Research Lecturer, between 1964 and 1969. His D.Phil. thesis, supervised by George Holmes and entitled ‘Edward I's Wars and their Financing, 1294–1307’, was completed in 1968, and in the following year he was appointed to a lectureship in medieval history at the University of St Andrews, where he remained for the next ten years. it was during this time that he married Maggie Daniel, a fellow medieval historian who had studied under Maurice Keen at oxford. Their two sons Robin and Chris were born while they were still in Scotland, their daughter Kate after they had moved to Durham, where Michael was appointed to a Readership in 1979 and where he spent the remainder of his academic career.
Michael Prestwich's published work, which runs to nine books (six authored, three edited) and some thirty articles and essays over four decades, exhibits a remarkable thematic unity and consistency of approach. Based on the meticulous analysis of manuscript and printed primary sources, it has focused primarily on the century between 1250 and 1350 (and especially the reign of Edward I) and has explored above all the impact of war upon the development of late medieval government and consequently upon the consolidation of the English state in the late pre-modern period.
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- War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150–1500Essays in Honour of Michael Prestwich, pp. ix - xviPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008