Description: Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence.
Brief description: Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular.
Review Quotes: One can only be impressed by the level of research underpinning all of these essays, which makes this a fitting tribute to Professor Carpenter.-- "PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY"