Bøger af David Crook

Transcripts of 13c plea rolls, vital legal, social and economic detail of the time, presented with full index for ease of reference.This volume completes the series initiated in 1922 to publish full texts of the plea rolls of the central courts of the English common law, the Bench and the Court Coram Rege. It contains the rolls of both courts for the second half of the year 1250, illustrating the development of the common law and providing information about a variety of people, places and subjects, from a hunting dispute between St Albans abbey and one of its knights to the activitiesof a criminal gang in Staffordshire and a settlement between neighbouring lords about the return of stray hunting dogs. A comprehensive index of persons and places is also included.

First complete edition of an invaluable and extensive collection of medieval documents.

The official records of England are the focus of this volume - their origin, their use, and what they reveal.

New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John.

New research into petitions and petitioning in the middle ages, illuminating aspects of contemporary law and justice.

A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.

';A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot' in World War II (The Spectator). Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealized air conflictsthe Battle of Britainseen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over one hundred planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly outnumbered, David Crook and his colleagues, in their state-of-the-art Spitfires, committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and the Junkers. Many did not make itand Crook describes the absence they leave in the squadron with great poignancy. Includes an introduction by historian Richard Overy