Introduction - Jörg Peltzer and Nicholas Vincent The Long Economic Recession of the Late Thirteenth Century - Bruce M.S. Campbell Comparing Serfdom in England and Southern Germany at the End of the Thirteenth Century: Possibilities and Pitfalls - Mark Bailey 'The Mind and Memory of a Community': Urban Record-Keeping and the Question of Civic Identity in England and Dublin - Eliza Hartrich Making the 'Stadtbuch': The Emergence of Record-Keeping in German Towns - Hanna Nüllen Anglo-German Entanglements: Richard's Hostages for Emperor Henry VI and Duke Leopold V of Austria. Recruitment - Treatment - Impact - Jörg Peltzer Isabella of England and Her Relationship with Emperor Frederick II - Louise J. Wilkinson Always Bad Timing? The Role of Plantagenet Domestic Politics in Anglo-German Relations - John Marshall A Road Less Travelled? The Anglo-German Itineraries of Richard of Cornwall - Adrian Jobson Law and Disorder in Thirteenth-Century England: Some Continental Dimensions - Henry Summerson Anglo-German Connections and the Crusade Movement: The Manuscript Tradition of Oliver of Cologne's Historia Damiatina in Thirteenth-Century England - Thomas W. Smith English History for Imperial Ears: Gervase of Tilbury's Account of the English Kings in his Otia Imperialia - Alexander Peplow Writing the Anger of Emperor Frederick II in England: Matthew Paris' Construction of the Emotions of a Foreign Ruler - Christina Bröker New Connections between Cologne, Paris and London, 1207-1306 - Nicholas Vincent.