ELIZABETH GEMMILL is an Associate Professor in History in the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her research interests are in later medieval social, economic, and ecclesiastical history. Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham.

• Lordship and distraint in thirteenth-century England - Paul A BrandRequests for prayers and royal propaganda under Edward I - D W BurtonLeperhouses and borough status in the thirteenth century - P H CullumThe political role of the archbishops of York during the Reign of Edward I - R B DobsonThe ecclesiastical patronage of the earls during the reign of Edward I - Elizabeth GemmillThe public and the private: women in the pre-plague economy - P J P GoldbergDefence of its liberties - Antonia GransdenGothic architecture in southern England and the French connection in the early thirteenth century - Lindy GrantEdward I and Adolf of Nassau - Michael C PrestwichCrusades, crusaders and the Baronial Gravamina of 1263-1264 - Robert C. StaceyThe first convocation, 1257? - R L Storey ***The marriage of Henry of Almain and Constance of Bearn - J R StuddThe early thirteenth-century architecture of Beverley Minster: cathedral splendours and cistercian austerities - Christopher Wilson