* Particularly important to this edition is the exploration of the prince's marriage to Joan of Kent, which is essential to comprehend the every-growing field of female royal and aristocratic power and political agency in the later middle ages.

* A revised edition that provides a fuller account of issues concerning the prince's campaign to Castile, culminating with the battle of Najera, provides students with a useful comparison with the battle of Crecy and helps them to better understand greater topics such as chivalry and warfare which are essential to high politics in fourteenth-century Europe.

* Scholarship and chivalric biography have developed significantly since the publication of the first edition 15 years ago and, with the expansion of introductory material, this edition is a useful and in-depth starting point not just for students concerned with fourteenth-century Europe, but also those who are less familiar with the events of the prince's life, offering something different to the competition.