Parliament in the thirteenth and early fourteenth century

G.O. Sayles, The King’s Parliament of England;  M.C. Prestwich, Edward I; The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, ed. R.G. Davies and J.H. Denton

Politics under Edward I

K.B. McFarlane, ‘Had Edward I a “Policy” towards the Earls?’, History 1965, and in his The Nobility of Later Medieval England;  M.C. Prestwich, ‘Royal Patronage under Edward I’, Thirteenth Century England I;  M.C. Prestwich, Documents Illustrating the Crisis of 1297-8 in England (Camden Series, 1980)

Religion

Burton, Janet, Monastic and religious orders in Britain, 1000-1300; Brentano, Robert, Two Churches: England and Italy in the Thirteenth Century; Constable, Giles. Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought; Tedeschi, John, the Prosecution of Heresy; Terpstra, Nicolas, Politics of Ritual Kinship; Vauchez, Andre, Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices; White, Stephen D., Custom, Kinship and Gifts to the Saints; Southern, R.W., Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe; Lewis, Suzane, The Art of Matthew of Paris in the Chronica Majora

Peasantry

J.L. Bolton, The Medieval English Economy, 1150-1500;  M.M.Postan, The Medieval Economy and Society: an economic history of Britain, 1100-1500;  E. Miller and J. Hatcher, Medieval England: rural society and economic change, 1086-1348;  R.H. Britnell, The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500; Chapelot, Jean, The Village and House in the Middle Ages; Gies, Frances, Life in a Medieval Village; Homans, George, English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century; Sweeney, Del, ed. Agriculture in the Middle Ages: Technology, Practice and Representation

Serfdom & Feudalism

Hilton, R., Bond Men Made Free (1971);  Hilton, R., Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism (1985);  Hilton, R., The Decline of Serfdom in the Middle Ages (1983 ed.);  Hilton, R., English and French Towns in Feudal Society (1992);  Hilton, R., The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages (1975);  Hilton, R., A Medieval Society: the West Midlands at the end of the thirteenth century;  Rigby, S., English Society in the Later Middle Ages (1995);  Bois, G., The Crisis of Feudalism (1984); Davies, W., ‘On Servile Status in the Early Middle Ages’, in M.L. Bush, ed., Serfdom and Slavery. Studies in Legal Bondage (1996) pp. 229-31); G. Duby, Rural economy and Country Life in the Medieval West (1962); P. Bonnassie, From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe (1991); M. Bloch, Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages (1975); Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society; Bonnassie, Pierre, From Slavery to Feudalism; Petit-Dutailles, Charles, The Feudal Monarchy in France and England

Bastard Feudalism

M. Hicks, Bastard Feudalism (1995);  S.L. Waugh, ‘Tenure to Contract: lordship to clientage in thirteenth-century England’, EHR ci (1988);  P.R. Coss, ‘Bastard Feudalism Revised’, Past and Present, no. 125 (1989);  D. Crouch, D.A. Carpenter, P.R. Coss, ‘Debate: Bastard Feudalism Revised’, Past and Present, no. 131 (1991)
 

Towns & Urban Life

D.M. Palliser (ed), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol 1 (Cambridge, 2000);  M.W. Beresford, New towns of the middle ages (1967); S. Reynolds, An Introduction to the History of English Medieval Towns (1977); Hilton, R.H., English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study; Pirenne, Henri, Medieval Cities

Wales

R.R. Davies, Domination and Conquest. The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300;  J.E Morris, The Welsh Wars of Edward I;  M.C. Prestwich, War, Politics and Finance under Edward I

The Scottish Wars

G.W.S. Barrow, Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland;  F. Watson, Under the Hammer:  Edward I and Scotland;  M.C. Prestwich, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Edward II

J.R. Maddicott, Thomas of Lancaster 1307-1322 (1970);  J.R.S. Phillips, Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke 1307-1324 (1972);  N.M. Fryde, The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II, 1321-26 (1979)

Law & Order

T.F.T. Plucknett, The Legislation of Edward I;  A. Musson, Public Order and Law Enforcement. The Local Adminstration of Criminal Justice, 1294-1350;  A. Musson and W.M. Ormrod, The Evolution of English Justice (1999); Radding, Charles, the Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence; Owen, Dorothy, Medieval Canon Law

Knights

P. Coss, The Knight in Medieval England, 1000-1400 (1993);  K.Faulkner, ‘The Transformation of Knighthood in Early Thirteenth-Century England’, EHR, 111 (1996);  D.A. Carpenter, ‘Was there a crisis of the knightly class in the thirteenth century? The Oxfordshire evidence’, EHR, 95 (1980);  Frances Gies, The Knight In History, Harper Row (1984)

Chivalry

J. Barker, The Tournament in England 1100-1400;  M. Keen, Chivalry (1984);  R.W. Kaeuper, War, Justice and Public Order. England and France in the Later Middle Ages (1988);  M.C. Prestwich, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: the English Experience (1998); Chickering, Howard and Thomas Seiler, eds., The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches

Money & Banking

Hunt, Edwin S, and Murray, James M., A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Cambridge, 1999);  Lopez, R., The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350 (Cambridge, 1976);  de Roover, R., Money, Banking and Credit in Medieval Bruges (Cambridge, Mass., 1948); Spufford, Peter, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe

Commerce, Trade & Industry

Cunningham, W. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce during the Early and Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1905; Unger, Richard, The Ship in the Medieval Economy; Bennett, Judith, Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages; Blair, John and N. Ramsay, English Medieval Industries: Craftsmen, Techniques, Products

Children & Childhood

Shahar, Shulamith, Childhood in the Middle Ages; Orme, Nicholas, Medieval Children; Parsons, J.C. and Bonnie Wheeler, Medieval Mothering

Women & Gender

Bynum, Caroline Walker, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women; Cadden, Joan, The Meaning of Sex Differences in the Middle Ages; Edwards, Robert and Vickie Ziegler, eds. Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society; Erler, Mary and M. Kowaleski, Women and Power in the Middle Ages; Herlihy, David, Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe; Leyser, Henrietta, Social History of Women in England; Sheridan, Sue, Wife and Widow in Medieval England; Uitz, Erika, The Legend of Good Women: Medieval Women in Towns and Cities; Ranft, Patricia, A History of Women's Religious Societies; Rosenthal, Joel T. (ed.), Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History; Stuard, Susan Mosher, Women in Medieval Society

The Family

Boswell, John, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children; Herlihy, David, Medieval Households; Sheehan Michael, ed., Aging and the Aged in Medieval Europe; Sheehan, Michael. Marriage, Family and the Law in Medieval Europe; Sheehan, Michael and J. Murray, Domestic Society in Medieval Europe

War & Military

Contamine, Philippe, War in the Middle Ages; France, John. Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300; Prestwich, Michael. Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages

General Histories

Barber, Malcolm, The Two Cities: Medieval Europe, 1050-1320;  Duby, Georges, France in the Middle Ages, 987-1460;  Medieval France: an Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler; New Cambridge Medieval History; Churchill, Winston(Sir), 1969, History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol.2;  Dee, Harold M, and Mott, George Fox, 1950, An Outline History of the Middle Ages, Barnes and Noble, New York; Flynn, James J, and Hoffman, Ross J.S, 1955, Medieval History, Littlefield, Adams and Co, Iowa, USA; Hallam, Elizabeth(ed.), 1995, Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry, Tiger Books International, London; Stenton, Doris Mary, 1962 (thrd ed.), English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307), Penguin Books, Victoria, Australia; Bateson, Mary. Medieval England, 1066–1350, 1905;  George Holmes, The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, Oxford University Press (1988); The Flowers of History, collected by Matthew of Westminster, trans. C. D. Yonge II; Archibald R. Lewis, ed., The High Middle Ages, 814-1300, 1970