Table of Contents

Introduction - Andrew Spencer and Carl S. Watkins
'The Uncertainties of Reformers: Collective Anxieties and Strategic Discourses' or 'The Use of Uncertainty by the 'Reforming' Circle of Adam Marsh' - Amanda Power
Moral Dilemmas in English Confessors' Manuals - Emily Corran
Damnatio Eternae Mortis or Medicinalis Non Mortalis: The Ambiguities of Excommunication in Thirteenth-Century England - Felicity Hill
The Contribution of Thomas Docking to the History of Political Thought - Frédérique Lachaud
Dealing with Inadequate Kingship: Uncertain Responses from Magna Carta to Deposition, 1199-1327 - Andrew Spencer
The Rebel's Four Dilemmas in the Long Thirteenth Century - Adrian L Jobson
The Daughters of William the Lion and Queen Ermengarde - Jessica Nelson
Simon de Montfort and the Ambiguity of Ethnicity in Thirteenth-Century Politics - Lucy Hennings
The Hue and Cry in Thirteenth-Century England - Kenneth Duggan
Recalling Anglo-Scottish Relations in 1291: Historical Knowledge, Monastic Memory, and the Edwardian Inquests - Alice Taylor

About the Author

Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular. Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity). ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular. Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity).