Talk by R. F. Trehame
It is no coincidence that in the thirteenth century, when English civilisation came nearer to perfection than at any other time in the Middle Ages, the English nation-state was born. But for the last fifty years, though historians and students of art, literature, and thought have broadened and deepened our knowledge of this climacteric century, no one has attempted an interpretative synthesis. Such a syntihesis is now offered by Sir Maurice Powicke in the recently published fourth volume of the Oxford History of England: The Thirteenth Century, 1216-1307. In this .talk Dr. Treharne, who is Professor of History in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, comments on Sir Maurice Powickt 's interpretation.