Overview

Essays addressing Anglo-German connections and comparisons across the period from 1190 to 1300, with particular attention to the economic, social and personal aspects of an entangled transregnal connection. A wide range of topics are covered in this significant collection. It begins with an examination of macro-economic developments, together with comparative studies of serfdom, and the record-keeping of English and German towns. Personal contacts are the subject of articles on the hostages delivered by Richard the Lionheart following his release from captivity by the Emperor Henry VI, the diplomatic initiatives of 1227, the subsequent marriage of Henry III's sister Isabella with the Emperor Frederick II, Richard of Cornwall's German itinerary, and relations between England and Cologne. Another article investigates what happened if foreigners travelling in England came into conflict with the law. Turning from people to manuscripts, three articles analyse in turn the English reception of Oliver of Cologne's Historia Damiatina, the representation of English kings in Gervase of Tilbury's Otia imperialia, and Matthew Paris's attempts to depict royal emotion.

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Author:   Jörg Peltzer ,  Professor Nicholas Vincent ,  Adrian Jobson (Author) ,  Alexander Peplow
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Boydell & Brewer
ISBN:  

9781837650873

ISBN 10:   183765087
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent The Long Economic Recession of the Late Thirteenth Century - Bruce M.S. Campbell Comparing Serfdom in England and Southern Germany at the End of the Thirteenth Century: Possibilities and Pitfalls - Mark Bailey 'The Mind and Memory of a Community': Urban Record-Keeping and the Question of Civic Identity in England and Dublin - Eliza Hartrich Making the 'Stadtbuch': The Emergence of Record-Keeping in German Towns - Hanna Nüllen Anglo-German Entanglements: Richard's Hostages for Emperor Henry VI and Duke Leopold V of Austria. Recruitment - Treatment - Impact - Jörg Peltzer Isabella of England and Her Relationship with Emperor Frederick II - Louise J. Wilkinson Always Bad Timing? The Role of Plantagenet Domestic Politics in Anglo-German Relations - John Marshall A Road Less Travelled? The Anglo-German Itineraries of Richard of Cornwall - Adrian Jobson Law and Disorder in Thirteenth-Century England: Some Continental Dimensions - Henry Summerson Anglo-German Connections and the Crusade Movement: The Manuscript Tradition of Oliver of Cologne's Historia Damiatina in Thirteenth-Century England - Thomas W. Smith English History for Imperial Ears: Gervase of Tilbury's Account of the English Kings in his Otia Imperialia - Alexander Peplow Writing the Anger of Emperor Frederick II in England: Matthew Paris' Construction of the Emotions of a Foreign Ruler - Christina Bröker New Connections between Cologne, Paris and London, 1207-1306 - Nicholas Vincent

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JÖRG PELTZER is Professor of Comparative Regional History in a European Perspective at Heidelberg University. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. HENRY SUMMERSON was awarded his Ph.D. by Cambridge University for a thesis on crime and law enforcement in England, 1227-1263. He has continued to work in this field, publishing numerous articles on aspects of medieval criminality, and editions, alone or in collaboration, of three crown pleas rolls, for Devon in 1238, Wiltshire in 1268 and Lancashire in 1292. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. MARK BAILEY was recently High Master of St Paul's School, London, and a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. His numerous publications include Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history 1200-1500 (2007) and After the Black Death. Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (2021). NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy Thomas W. Smith gained his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London; he is presently Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge (Arts and Humanities) at Rugby School.

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