This volume of English Episcopal Acta completes the publication of the acta of the bishops of Exeter up to 1257. It complements Volume XI which covers the period 1047 to 1184. Together these volumes will provide an invaluable resource for historians of South-West England in the Middle Ages.
A Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, Frank Barlow was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 1976. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 for his contributions to historical scholarship.