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Ambler's book is a welcome contribution to the study of British church history * Mark Clavier, Anglican and Episcopal History * Ambler's work is good, nuanced, and well argued, and fits into the current trends of the historiography with its sympathetic focus on the bishops as men operating within multiple spheres. It contributes well to the discussions around episcopal roles within the political community of thirteenth-century England * Melissa Julian-Jones, Speculum * an excellent book, bold in its range and persuasive in its reasoning. * J.R. Maddicott, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History *

Ambler's book is a welcome contribution to the study of British church history * Mark Clavier, Anglican and Episcopal History * Ambler's work is good, nuanced, and well argued, and fits into the current trends of the historiography with its sympathetic focus on the bishops as men operating within multiple spheres. It contributes well to the discussions around episcopal roles within the political community of thirteenth-century England * Melissa Julian-Jones, Speculum * an excellent book, bold in its range and persuasive in its reasoning. * J.R. Maddicott, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History *

Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History * an excellent book, bold in its range and persuasive in its reasoning. * J.R. Maddicott, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *

Ambler's book is a welcome contribution to the study of British church history * Mark Clavier, Anglican and Episcopal History * Ambler's work is good, nuanced, and well argued, and fits into the current trends of the historiography with its sympathetic focus on the bishops as men operating within multiple spheres. It contributes well to the discussions around episcopal roles within the political community of thirteenth-century England * Melissa Julian-Jones, Speculum * an excellent book, bold in its range and persuasive in its reasoning. * J.R. Maddicott, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History *

Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History *

Ambler's work is good, nuanced, and well argued, and fits into the current trends of the historiography with its sympathetic focus on the bishops as men operating within multiple spheres. It contributes well to the discussions around episcopal roles within the political community of thirteenth-century England * Melissa Julian-Jones, Speculum * an excellent book, bold in its range and persuasive in its reasoning. * J.R. Maddicott, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Treating politics as an aspect of episcopal pastoral care and the oversight of the latent sinfulness of rulership in the century of the wider pastoral revolution, Ambler offers an innovative reading of English politics during a dramatic period ... offers a stimulating and provocative interpretation and approach which merits serious attention not only for the book's specific analysis of 13th-century England, but as a model for applications more widely across succeeding centuries, during which England's bishops continued to be a significant influence, and were often active and important participants, in national political life. * Robert Swanson, Reviews in History *

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S. T. Ambler undertook her doctoral research at King's College London, with joint supervision at University College London, and received her PhD in 2012 after a year as Thornley Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Afterwards she worked on the AHRC-funded Breaking of Britain Project, and from 2013 to 2015 as Senior Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the AHRC's Magna Carta Project at the University of East Anglia. While at King's she taught Medieval British History and since 2013 has taught courses on the Crusades and Norman and Plantagenet England at the University of East Anglia. She has published articles in Historical Research and English Historical Review.

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