"That there was a tendency for strong and successful kings to be succeeded by weak and unsuccessful ones is one of the…"

"The Gaveston years, 1307 to 1312, set the course of English politics for a decade. Soul-baring and humiliating for th…"

"Seeing Robert Bruce mounted on ‘a little palfrey’, Sir Henry de Bohun the nephew of the Earl of Hereford, sought immo…"

"Edward’s triumph in 1321-2 gave him the opportunity to establish a strong and responsible rule in England.…England ac…"

"Edward’s pride in his army – ‘such as has never been seen in our time, or in the times of our ancestors’ – shows that…"

"As so often, a quick war was followed by a slow peace."

"What was disturbing was the dichotomy between Edward’s behavior and his almost Olympian view of kingly office. The la…"

"The grimly inventive repertoire of punishments meted out by both sides during Edward’s reign proclaims it as an age o…"

"Ultimately, however, it was Edward’s inability to fulfill the two overriding obligations of a medieval king – to admi…"

"Explaining why he was the first English king to be deposed is in many ways easier than explaining why it took twenty …"