This book is the first detailed examination on a comparative basis of the economic and political relations between the bishops and their cathedral clergy in Eng

Examines the identities and networks of bishops in medieval Europe. Bishops were powerful individuals who had considerable spiritual, economic, and political po

Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by co

An alternative view of the Conquest and settlement from north-east England, charting relations between the monastic community and the invading Normans.

"This dedicated volume of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association draws together ten papers which, collectively, explore something of the art and