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Explores the role of bishops at the heart of thirteenth-century English politics, examining their culture and political theology. Under King John and Henry III, the bishops acted as peacemakers, supporting royal power when it was threatened, but between 1258 and 1265, led by Simon de Montfort, they became partisans, helping to overturn royal power.

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Explores the role of bishops at the heart of thirteenth-century English politics, examining their culture and political theology. Under King John and Henry III, the bishops acted as peacemakers, supporting royal power when it was threatened, but between 1258 and 1265, led by Simon de Montfort, they became partisans, helping to overturn royal power.
Autorenporträt
S. T. Ambler undertook her doctoral research at King's College London, with joint supervision at University College London, and received her PhD in 2012 after a year as Thornley Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Afterwards she worked on the AHRC-funded Breaking of Britain Project, and from 2013 to 2015 as Senior Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the AHRC's Magna Carta Project at the University of East Anglia. While at King's she taught Medieval British History and since 2013 has taught courses on the Crusades and Norman and Plantagenet England at the University of East Anglia. She has published articles in Historical Research and English Historical Review.