The first comparative study of royal childhood and child kingship, revealing the fundamental role they played in medieval rulership.

Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated t

Essays exploring and problematizing the idea of an "exceptional" England within Western Europe during the long thirteenth century. The theme of this volume, "Ex

Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a tra

Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards concep