This volume of essays, based on papers given at a conference on England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III, at the University of Wales, Swansea in April 2000, investigates the close political, economic and cultural ties that developed between England and its neighbours during the reign of Henry III. The essays demonstrate the variety and strength of these contacts between England and her neighbours, and by seeking to place Henry's England within a broader geographical and thematic range, should contribute to a broader understanding of England's place within 13th-century Europe.

Contents: Negotiating Anglo-Welsh relations - Llywelyn the Great and Henry III, Huw Pryce; Reconfiguring the Angevin Empire, 1224-1259, Robin Studd; Henry the Peaceable - Henry III, Alexander III and Royal Lordship in the British Isles, 1249-1272, Michael Brown; England and the Albigensian Crusade, Nicholas Vincent; Henry III (1216-1272), Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) and the crusading plans of the 13th century (1245-1272), Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia; The monastic world, Janet Burton; Henry III through foreign eyes - communication and historical writing in 13th-century Europe, Bjorn Weiler; Royal women of England and France in the mid-13th century - a gendered perspective, Margaret Howell; Roger of Wendover and the Wars of Henry III, 1216-1234, Sean McGlynn; How to get on in England in the 13th century? - Dietrich of Cologne, burgess of Stamford, Natalie Fryde; Henry III's England and the Curia, Chrisoph Egger.