Author: Janet M. Cooper
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Keywords: archbishops, york, saxon, anglo, four, last
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 1970-09
ISBN-10: 0900701056
ISBN-13: 9780900701054

Author: Michael Prestwich
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: edward
Number of Pages: 650
Published: 1988
ISBN-10: 0520062663
ISBN-13: 9780520062665

Michael Prestwich's study of Edward I, first published in 1988 and now reissued with a new introduction and updated bibliographic guide, is the definitive full-length account of one of the leading monarchs of the Middle Ages. A king who pioneered legal and parliamentary change, conquered Wales and came close to conquering Scotland, Edward I presents many contradictions. A pious man who built his reputation during the greatest chivalric adventure of the time, the Crusade, he quarrelled with his archbishops. A major player in European diplomacy and war, he acted as peacemaker during the 1280s bu