JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history. 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. JÖRG PELTZER is Professor of Comparative Regional History in a European Perspective at Heidelberg University.

• Politics and the People in Thirteenth-Century England - John R. MaddicottPeasants, Litigation and Agency in Medieval England: the Development of Law in Manorial Courts in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries - Phillipp SchofieldMedieval Accounting Memoranda from Norwich Cathedral Priory - Harmony DewezThe Seals of London's Governing Elite in the Thirteenth Century - The Marriages of the English Earls in the Thirteenth Century: a Social Perspective - Jörg PeltzerMonks and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Catalonia - Karen StöberLope Fernández, bishop of Morocco: his Diplomatic Role in the Planning of an Anglo-Castilian Crusade into Northern Africa - Olga Mendez-GonzalezOn Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste's Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement - Sophie AmblerSt. Edmund of Canterbury and Henry III in the Shadow of Thomas Becket - Joseph CreamerMatthew Paris and the Royal Christmas: Ritualised Communication in Text and Practice - Lars KjaerThomas of Lancaster in the Vita Edwardi Secundi: a Study in Disillusionment - Andrew SpencerJohn and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut - Julia MarvinGenealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History - Olivier de LaborderieThe Genealogical Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Edition - Olivier de Laborderie