Plantagenet England: England 1225-1360 (The New Oxford History of England)

xxii, 638 pp. Chronology, genealogical tables, and extensive bibliography and index follow text. "Embracing politics and government, kingship, the structure of society, France, Scotland, and Wales, as well as areas such as the environment, the management of the land, crime, and punishment, Michael Prestwich's magnificent survey casts the Plantagenet past in a new and revealing light."