This book examines the organisation of power and society in north-east England over two crucial centuries in the emergence of the English 'state'. England is us

In-depth examinations of the role played by liberties across the British Isles.

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and

Essays exploring childhood and youth in Scotland before the nineteenth century.

Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish landscape. Crisis and Surviv