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