The Letters of Edward I

Highly commended for the Royal Studies Journal Book Prize, 2022 Detailed examination of the letters of Edward I reveals them to be powerful and sophisticated political tools. As formulaic in appearance as they are abundant in the archives, it is easy to underestimate the power of the letters generated by medieval governments, but these acts of communication were more than mere containers of information. Operating at the intersection of the spoken and the written, the performed and the observed,