Power and Control: Kingship in the Middle Ages C.1100 - 1500: Student Book

by Toby Purser

A lively, engaging Student Book for the Power and Control option of Unit 1, this user-friendly text will motivate students by bringing medieval history to life, and showing how history is relevant in today's world. Providing complete, tailored coverage, this book: * has been developed specifically for the Power and Control option, so you can be sure there is no redundancy of material * provides strategies and a range of resources to help pupils develop their research and enquiry skills * contains end-of-section exam practice to prepare effectively for external examination. Written to match the OCR GCSE History pilot specification exactly, this is a must-have resource for those intending to follow this innovative new course.

72 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2006

About the author

Toby is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and studied History at Oxford where he took BA and MSt degrees, specialising in medieval English history. Toby later completed a PhD and has published several articles and textbooks. After teaching history for 12 years, Toby returned to academe where he is senior lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Toby's latest book is The Making of England: from Rome to Reformation (Amberley) published in hardback November 2022. This is the culmination of many years of study and teaching medieval England and examines the written and physical histories of medieval England c400-1600, how the state came into being and why the course of English history is 'exceptional.'

Toby has also written two historical novels. The first, titled The Devil's Inheritance, is the epic saga of the Norman Conquest of England, spanning four decades, detailing the stories of Duke William of Normandy and Earl Harold Godwinsson, culminating in the best known date in English history, the battle of Hastings, October 1066. This is available on Kindle and in paperback.

The second novel, The Zaharoff Conspiracy, is a spy mystery set in 1914, weeks before the outbreak of the First World War wherein Septimus Oates, an Oxford don, stumbles upon a royal secret dating from the late eighteenth century which threatens world peace. The Zaharoff Conspiracy is the first in a series of spy thrillers set during the First World War and the early years of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service.