Study Guides Bundle

Three investigations. One argument. The law was never neutral.

This bundle brings together three fully researched study guides from the Histories & Castles Academy series, all written by published historian Simon A. Williams. Each one takes a different corner of medieval English law and asks the same question: who did it actually serve?

Bought separately, the three guides cost £20.97. This bundle is £15.99.

What's included:

The Neck Verse examines benefit of clergy, the mechanism by which the Church carved out its own legal world inside England, and traces the five-century conflict between ecclesiastical and royal jurisdiction from the murder of Thomas Becket to the abolition of clerical privilege in 1827.

The King's Deer follows Forest Law from its creation under the Normans to the Charter of the Forest in 1217, and investigates what it meant to live in a legal system that placed a royal animal above a human life and enforced that preference for two hundred years.

Servants of the Royal Chamber investigates the legal designation of servi camerae regis and how the Crown used it to control, extract from, and ultimately expel the Jewish community in medieval England. The argument is precise: this community was not destroyed despite the law. It was destroyed through it.

Built for A Level and beyond. Each guide integrates key terms, historiography, source analysis, and exam practice questions throughout. The analytical framework in each one is built around the themes examiners return to: power and authority, law and society, change and continuity, cause and consequence.

Format: Three instant PDF downloads. Print-friendly. Permanent access.