Thirteenth Century England XVI: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2015

Fruits of the most recent research into the "long" thirteenth century.

The idea of uncertainty forms a major theme throughout the essays collected here; they tackle aspects of religious, intellectual, political and social history, highlighting how uncertainty, in many and varied forms, was conceptualized, negotiated and exploited in the particular conditions of the long thirteenth century. A number of the contributions explore understandings of the cosmos and personal salvation, probing the ...