Books in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series series

A detailed study of the King's Hall, Cambridge, from its foundation to its dissolution.

In this book, Dobson throws new light on the universal aspirations and pre occupations of medieval monasticism.

Professor Russell attempts to correlate theories of the just war with political and intellectual development in the Middle Ages. His conclusion evaluates the just war in the light of late medieval and early modern statecraft and poses questions about its compatibility with Christian ethics and its validity within international law.

Recently there has been more emphasis on the personalities involved in Edward II's reign rather than constitutional, administrative and particularly ecclesiastical matters. By contrast, this book offers an analysis of the role played by Adam Orleton, promoted successively Bishop of Hereford, Worcester and Winchester by a pope who paid no attention to the expostulations of the government at home.

The election of both Urban VI and Clement VII to the papacy in 1378 presented the church with an apparently insoluble constitutional difficulty. Dr Swanson examines how this was dealt with by the universities to whom Europe turned to formulate the theories which would solve the problem.

This book presents a balanced account not only of the theoretical framework and legal complexities of the law of treason in later medieval France, but also of the extent and political context of that law's enforcement. Throughout the book comparisons are made with the English law.

Walter Stapeldon, fifteenth bishop of Exeter, was the founder of Exeter College, Oxford, and the greatest of Edward II's treasurers of the Exchequer. As Edward's regime crumbled in 1326, he paid the price of his master's rapacious policies, of which he was the chief instrument.

This book examines the way in which the central English government dealt with Irish ecclesiastical matters.

This is the first detailed study of the career of one of the most important medieval archbishops of Canterbury. Robert Winchelsey sought to defend ecclesiastical rights and liberties at a time when the English Church was under constant pressure from the king and his government, and he suffered suspension from office as a result of his opposition to Edward I.

The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle agesThis book provides a coherent account of Ockham's aims and the principles operating in all his political works.

A study of political ideas in the conflict between the Council of Basle (1431-1449) and Pope Eugenius IV (1431-1447). Dr Black discusses both the development and the meaning of these doctrines, and their contribution to the notion of constitutional democracy and of monarchical sovereignty respectively.

A study of the economic development of the Norman kingdom of Sicily and the maritime ports of Genoa, Pisa and Venice. Dr Abulafia argues that the kingdom was a major exporter of wheat and raw cotton, and that in the twelfth century the northern merchants gained a substantial hold over these exports.

Against the background of the struggle between Christianity and Islam for the control of the Spanish Peninsula, this book examines the internal condition of the Spanish Church in the thirteenth century, its relations with the Christian kings and with a succession of great popes.

Dr King makes a searching investigation into the structure and ethos of Visigothic society as it is revealed in the legal and other other sources of the time.

This study is the first modern account of the development of philosophy during the Carolingian Renaissance. In the late eighth century, Dr Marenbon argues, theologians were led by their enthusiasm for logic to pose themselves truly philosophical questions.

This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown.