David Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Middle English Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

• Preface; Introduction: writing to the King; 1. Defending Anglia; 2. Attacking Scotland: Edward I and the 1290s; 3. Regime change; 4. The destruction of England: crisis and complaint c.1300–41; 5. Love letters to Edward III; Envoy.

'… this book is to be welcomed for its ambitious contribution to the history of political writing in the century before the great Ricardian poets.' The Review of English Studies

David Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Middle English Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

• Preface; Introduction: writing to the King; 1. Defending Anglia; 2. Attacking Scotland: Edward I and the 1290s; 3. Regime change; 4. The destruction of England: crisis and complaint c.1300–41; 5. Love letters to Edward III; Envoy.

'… this book is to be welcomed for its ambitious contribution to the history of political writing in the century before the great Ricardian poets.' The Review of English Studies

David Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Middle English Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester.

• Preface; Introduction: writing to the King; 1. Defending Anglia; 2. Attacking Scotland: Edward I and the 1290s; 3. Regime change; 4. The destruction of England: crisis and complaint c.1300–41; 5. Love letters to Edward III; Envoy.

'… this book is to be welcomed for its ambitious contribution to the history of political writing in the century before the great Ricardian poets.' The Review of English Studies