Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Peter des Roches : An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238 - No Information Available

Peter des Roches

An Alien in English Politics, 1205-1238

By: No Information Available

Paperback | 5 December 2002

At a Glance

Paperback

RRP $79.95

$74.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $18.69 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233â"4. It sheds new light on such issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.
Industry Reviews
' ... brilliant study ... Vincent has hunted down the widest possible range of sources, printed and unprinted, English and French, and has exploited them cleverly.' John Gillingham, The Times Literary Supplement

You Can Find This Book In

Non-FictionBiographies & True Stories BiographiesHistorical, Political and Military BiographiesHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean HistoryBritish & Irish HistoryEarliest Times to Present DayEarly History from 500 to 1500

More in British & Irish History

Elizabeth II : In Private. In Public. The Inside Story. - Robert Hardman

Elizabeth II

In Private. In Public. The Inside Story.

Hardcover

RRP $50.00

$38.75

22%
OFF
Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas - Lucy Frost

Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

Penguin Classics

Paperback

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
Say Nothing : True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing

True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Paperback

RRP $27.99

$21.75

22%
OFF
Revenge : Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors - Tom Bower

Revenge

Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Anglo-Saxons : A History of the Beginnings of England - Marc Morris

The Anglo-Saxons

A History of the Beginnings of England

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
On the Trail of the Kray Twins - RICHARD CHARLES COBB

On the Trail of the Kray Twins

Hardcover

$45.75

Viking Britain : A History - Thomas Williams

Viking Britain

A History

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
A New History of the Irish in Australia - Dianne Hall

A New History of the Irish in Australia

Paperback

RRP $39.99

$33.75

16%
OFF
We Don't Know Ourselves : A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 - Fintan O'Toole

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF

This product is categorised by