Tutor information
Andy King
Andy King completed his PhD at Durham University in 2002, and is currently a Lecturer in History, at Southampton. He edited Sir Thomas Gray: Scalacronica (1272–1363), and has published on warfare, the Anglo-Scottish Marches and on chronicles.
Courses
Edward II was the first king of England to be legally deposed by his own subjects. The course will examine the politics and wars which led to this unprecedented action.
Hailed by the English as a second Arthur, but reviled by his enemies as ‘the Covetous King’, Edward I was one of the most forceful kings in Britain’s history. What were the contemporary expectations of kingship which shaped his reign?