Anglo-Papal Relations in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study in Medieval DiplomacyThis volume is concerned with diplomacy between England and the papal curia during the first phase of the Anglo French conflict known as the Hundred Years' War (1305 1360). On the one hand, Barbara Bombi compares how the practice of diplomacy, conducted through both official and unofficial diplomatic communications, developed in England and at the papal curia alongside the formation of bureaucratic systems. On the other hand, she questions how the