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. Ian Forrest is professor of social and religious history at the University of Oxford. Professor PHILIPPA HOSKIN is Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi College, and Keeper of the Parker Library, University of Cambridge. She is also General Editor of the Lincoln Record Society. RICHARD CASSIDY studied history as an undergraduate at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in the 1960s. After retirement from a career in the gas industry, he returned to history, with an MA and PhD in medieval history at King's College, London. His PhD thesis 'The 1259 Pipe Roll' is the basis for an edition of that roll to be published by the Pipe Roll Society. Since completing his doctorate in 2012, he has published several articles on thirteenth-century royal finance and administration. He has also written a book, Approaching Pipe Rolls: The Thirteenth Century, to be published by Routledge in the Approaching Medieval Sources series

• How did Thirteenth-Century Knights Counter Royal Authority? - Peter CossPower and the People in Thirteenth-Century England - Ian ForrestBad Sheriffs, Custodial Sheriffs, and Control of the Counties - Richard CassidyKing's Men without the King: Royalist Castle Garrison Resistance between the Battles of Lewes and Evesham - Fergus OakesFamily Strategy or Personal Principles? The Corbets in the Reign of Henry III - Melissa Julian-JonesNatural law, Protest and the English Episcopate 1257-1265 - Philippa M. HoskinVerse Diplomacy and the English Interdict - Jennifer JahnerThinking Politically with Innocent III: Prudence and Providence - John SabapathyVisions of Power: Authority and Religious Identity in Cistercian Exempla - Helen BirkettNarratives of Resistance: Arguments against the Mendicants in the Works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour - Sita SteckelThe Visual Representation of Authority in the Historia Anglorum of Matthew Paris - Judith Collard

Showcases both the best of traditional political history and welcomes new avenues for approaching thirteenth-century England.