The Reign of King Stephen

At last: an authoritative, up-to-date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. Weaving his discussions around a vigorous narrative core, he has produced a work of major scholarship.