The Song of Simon de Montfort : The Life and Death of a Medieval Revolutionary
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 281372378
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 0190946237
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 150,000-word monograph (Picador UK/Commonwealth, Oxford University Press USA) draws from significant archival research and bridges multiple historiographies to revaluate the career of Simon de Montfort (d.1265), who supplanted royal government with conciliar rule in England, placing it amidst crusading culture across Christendom. This unlocks an explanation of the thirteenth-century transformation of European warfare, when ransoming culture gave way to intra-noble lethal violence. Nicholas Vincent (Literary Review) calls it ‘an expert’s account … embracing global as well as socio-historical themes,’ while Noel Malcolm (Sunday Telegraph) calls it ‘a remarkable book … based on deep, scholarly knowledge of the sources.’
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- Non-English
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