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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 October 2009
      11 April 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511560316
      9780521552547
      9780521522151
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511560316
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.739kg, 566 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 568 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (31)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (31)
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    This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233–4. It sheds new light on such issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

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    ‘ … brilliant study … Vincent has hunted down the widest possible range of sources, printed and unprinted, English and French, and has exploited them cleverly.’

    John Gillingham Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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