Paul Dalton & Graeme J White 
King Stephen’s Reign (1135-1154) 

Expert coverage and new assessments of the reign of King Stephen, set in social, political and European context.


The turbulent reign of King Stephen is here subjected to a full assessment by leading scholars in the field. All of the most important aspects are fully covered: the impact of developments under Henry I on the origins of civil war; relations with the continent, as they affected Stephen’s overall strategy and the foundation of religious houses; the opportunities which lured foreign mercenaries to England; mid-twelfth century legal developments and trends inrevenue-raising; baronial and episcopal allegiances; violent disorder and civil unrest; and the sequence of events which unfolded during the political crisis of July 1141. Taken together, they provide the fruits of the most recent research into and the most up to date interpretations of the intense political and military activity of the reign.


CONTRIBUTORS: MARJORIE CHIBNALL, JUDITH GREEN, DAVID CROUCH, JANET BURTON, THOMAS BISSON, BRUCE O’BRIEN, GRAEME WHITE, PAUL DALTON, STEPHEN MARRITT, HUGH THOMAS, EDMUND KING

Table des matières

Introduction – Marjorie Chibnall

Henry I and the Origins of the Civil War – Judith Green

Royal Income and Regional Trends – Graeme J White

King Stephen and Northern France – David Crouch

A Week in Politics: Oxford, Late July 1114 – Edmund King

Allegiance and Intelligence in King Stephen’s Reign – Paul Dalton

English Monasteries and the Continent in the Reign of King Stephen – Janet Burton

Reeds Shaken by the Wind? Bishops in Local and Regional Politics in King Stephen’s Reign – Stephen Marritt

Violent Disorder in King Stephen’s England: A Maximum Argument – Hugh M Thomas

The Lure of Stephen’s England:
Tenserie, Flemings and a Crisis of Circumstance – Thomas Bisson

Legal Treatises as Perceptions of Law in Stephen’s Reign – Bruce O’Brien

A propos de l’auteur

Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history.