Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Leopard or the Lion: Edward I 2. The Proving Ground: The War Against the Scots 3. Edward II: The Incompetent King 4. Counsel and Consent: The Development of Parliament 5. The Nobility 6. 'Our Just Quarrel' : The Hundred Years War 7 . War, Profits and Chivalry 8. Crisis and Stability: The Domestic Policies of Edward III to 1360 9. Plague, Famine and War: The Fourteenth Century Economy 10. The Years of Decline, 1360–77. Genealogical Tables: The House of Plantagenet and its Branches. The Succession to the Scottish Throne. The House of Valois

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'The best general survey of a topic central to the development of the English state.' - Times Literary Supplement'valuable second edition of [a] much thumbed work' Scottish Association of Teachers of History