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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. Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity). NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

• King John and Gerald of Wales - Robert BartlettWhy did the Number of Knights in France and England Fall in the Thirteenth Century? - Xavier HélaryProvinces, Policies, and Popes: Comparing Polish and English Episcopal Elections Over the Long Thirteenth Century - Agata ZielinskaMagnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late-Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme? - Matthew Raven Ugolino of the Gherardesca and the 'Enigma' of Simon de Montfort - Peter CossBreaking the Ties: The Cross-Channel Baronage and the Separation of England and Normandy in 1204 - Nick HopkinsonA Typical Periphery: England in Late Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century Cistercian Texts from the Continent - Antoni Grabowski 'A Star Lit by God': Boy Kings, Childish Innocence, and English Exceptionalism during Henry III's Minority, c.1216-c.1227 - Emily Joan WardTwilight of the Overkings: Edward I's Superior Lordship of Scotland as Paradox - Scott DempseyExceptional Flanders? The First Strikes and Collective Actions of Craftsmen in North-Western Europe around the Middle of the Thirteenth Century - Leen BervoetsSocial Hierarchies and Networks in the Thirteenth-Century London Jewry - Dean A. IrwinAlbion Adrift: The English Presence in Paris and its Environs after 1204 - Nicholas Vincent