The Minority of Henry III

by David Arscott Carpenter

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Genres: History, Medieval, Plantagenet

490 pages, Hardcover

Published August 10, 1990

About the author

David Arscott Carpenter is an English historian, currently Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He has written widely on the reign of Henry III.

David Carpenter is Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London and an expert in thirteenth-century England. He has published extensively on politics and society in the reigns of King John and Henry III as well as on the context, issue and reception of Magna Carta. His book The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 is widely read by scholars, students and the general public. Professor Carpenter has been tracing versions of Magna Carta 1215 for the Magna Carta Project and is currently preparing a book on the Charter for Penguin.

Reviews

[K.S. Trenten · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sometimes dry, often interesting and informative account of the consequences of the Magna Carta, how its Charters settled in during the regency of Henry III, the establishment of a centralized and limited monarchy. There’s a lot of fighting over castles while the regency struggles to reclaim them in the king’s name from the nobles whom acquired them, even as details are related of the loss of Poitou and other hereditary lands held on the Angevin continent, even while laws are put into practice which check each other’s power. As these changes occur, the English nobility establish more of an identity as the English nobility rather than Norman or Angevin. This book made me very curious to read more about the key players during this time period; Hubert de Burgh, Hugh de Lusignan, Bishop Peter, and Falkes. (Hugh appears to have been quite the popular name during this time period.) I would have liked to have seen their personalities fleshed out a little bit more in this book, but the focus was more on the actions, problems, and dangers during the regency. Location was more of a key point than character. I learned a lot while reading this, for quite a bit of information was contained about the time and changes which were shaping England as a nation. If this subject matter interests you, you’ll want to give this a look.