Part 1 Communities in transition: the kingdom in transition; an Angevin community - Gloucestershire; a divided community - Oxfordshire; a royalist community - Essex; the Anglo-Flemish community; the financial community. Part 2 Royal financial administration: the sheriffs and the exchequer; the condition of the kingdom; the farms and the "Terre Date"; developments in royal revenue; conclusion. Appendices: royal revenues, 1155-59; annual county farms.
The evidence is handled with sensitivity and thoroughness, and the
result is a stimulating and helpful monograph which much advances
the study of this political watershed. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Exemplary monograph. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW Amt's study of Henry
taking control of England is a convincing refurbishing of his
traditional portrait as a political genius. AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW An original, illuminating, and lucid study of an important
subject. It is based on sound scholarship and extensive research
and will be of considerable value to students and teachers of
twelfth-century Anglo-Norman and Angevin history. ALBION A new and
exciting approach examin[ing] a transitional period encompassing
two reigns. Elegantly written and well crafte.. it causes us to
reconsider received opinion concerning Stephen's mainentance of
royal government during the civil war and the nature of policies
carried out by Henry II.
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