Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century.

King John and Gerald of Wales - Robert Bartlett
Why did the Number of Knights in France and England Fall in the Thirteenth Century? - Xavier Hélary
Provinces, Policies, and Popes: Comparing Polish and English Episcopal Elections Over the Long Thirteenth Century - Agata Zielinska
Magnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late-Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme? - Matthew Raven
Ugolino of the Gherardesca and the 'Enigma' of Simon de Montfort - Peter Coss
Breaking the Ties: The Cross-Channel Baronage and the Separation of England and Normandy in 1204 - Nick Hopkinson
A Typical Periphery: England in Late Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Cistercian Texts from the Continent - Antoni Grabowski
'A Star Lit by God': Boy Kings, Childish Innocence, and English Exceptionalism during Henry III's Minority, c.1216-c.1227 - Emily Joan Ward
Twilight of the Overkings: Edward I's Superior Lordship of Scotland as Paradox - Scott Dempsey
Exceptional Flanders? The First Strikes and Collective Actions of Craftsmen in North-Western Europe around the Middle of the Thirteenth Century - Leen Bervoets
Social Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry - Dean A. Irwin
Albion Adrift: The English Presence in Paris and its Environs after 1204 - Nicholas Vincent