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Three investigations. One argument running through all of them: the law was never neutral.
This bundle brings together three fully researched study guides from the Histories and 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, these three guides cost £20.97. This bundle is £15.99. You save £5.
What's in This Bundle:
The Neck Verse: Medieval England Benefit of Clergy
Examines benefit of clergy, the mechanism by which the Church carved out its own legal world inside England. Traces the five-century conflict between ecclesiastical and royal jurisdiction from the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170 to the abolition of clerical privilege in 1827.
The King's Deer: Forest Law
Follows Forest Law from its creation under the Normans to the Charter of the Forest in 1217. 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: Medieval Law and Jewish History
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.
The Connecting Thread:
Each guide examines a different legal system, but they all ask the same fundamental question: who did the law actually protect? In each case, the answer is the same. The law protected the powerful. It exposed the vulnerable. And it was never neutral.
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 again and again:
- Power and authority: how law was used to control
- Law and society: whose interests the legal system actually served
- Change and continuity: what altered and what did not
- Cause and consequence: how legal frameworks produced historical outcomes
- Significance: what each system reveals about medieval power
These are not generic revision guides. They are fully argued historical investigations, written to the same standard as Simon A. Williams' published books (The Truth Behind Welsh Myths and Legends, The Pendle Witch Conspiracy, No Law for the Poor), complete with primary sources, secondary sources, and full bibliographies. Every claim can be checked. Every argument can be traced to its foundation.
Written by a Published Historian, for Students and Teachers
This is not content padded to fill a screen. It is rigorous historical scholarship presented at undergraduate level but designed for A Level students who want to develop the kind of thinking examiners reward.
For A Level Medieval History Students
If you're sitting AQA, Edexcel, or OCR papers covering medieval England, medieval law, power and authority, the role of the Church, or the limits of royal power, this bundle is designed for your course. It is also a complete resource for teachers preparing structured coursework materials on medieval law, power, and society.
Format: Three instant PDF downloads. Print-friendly. You receive permanent access on purchase. No waiting period. No expiry.
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