Thirteenth-Century England IIIcontinues the series which began in 1986 with the publication of the first volume of the biannual Newcastle upon Tyne conferences on thirteenth-century England. Important studies of aspects of English society and politics open up new areas of research and re-examine standard interpretations. Contributors: PAUL BRAND, D.W. BURTON, P.H. CULLUM, R.B. DOBSON, ELIZABETH GEMMILL, P.J.P. GOLDBERG, ANTONIA GRANSDEN, LINDY GRANT, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ROBERT C. STACEY, R.L.STOREY, ROBIN STUDD, CHRISTOPHER WILSON.

Lordship and distraint in thirteenth-century England - Paul A Brand
Requests for prayers and royal propaganda under Edward I - D W Burton
Leperhouses and borough status in the thirteenth century - P H Cullum
The political role of the archbishops of York during the Reign of Edward I - R B Dobson
The ecclesiastical patronage of the earls during the reign of Edward I - Elizabeth Gemmill
The public and the private: women in the pre-plague economy - P J P Goldberg
Defence of its liberties - Antonia Gransden
Gothic architecture in southern England and the French connection in the early thirteenth century - Lindy Grant
Edward I and Adolf of Nassau - Michael C Prestwich
Crusades, crusaders and the Baronial Gravamina of 1263-1264 - Robert C. Stacey
The first convocation, 1257? - R L Storey ***
The marriage of Henry of Almain and Constance of Bearn - J R Studd
The early thirteenth-century architecture of Beverley Minster: cathedral splendours and cistercian austerities - Christopher Wilson