118 research outputs found
Working with Anglo-Norman royal acta in MS-Access
No full textKarn Nicholas, Sharpe Richard. Working with Anglo-Norman royal acta in MS Access. In: Le médiéviste et l'ordinateur, N°42, printemps 2003. La diplomatique. pp. 61-65
William the Conqueror's Lost Writ for London Rediscovered
No full textWilliam the Conqueror's writ for London has long been recognised as one of the key sources for the Norman Conquest of England, and has been discussed at length and printed many times. Yet the archives of the Corporation of the City of London contain another, hitherto unpublished, text of a writ of that king in favour of the citizens of London. In the later middle ages, it was set alongside its better-known companion as one of the fundamental texts of the City and its jurisdictions, but the original had disappeared by the seventeenth century. This essay sets out an edition of this text, and argues that it is a Latin translation of a lost Old English writ. It further argues that the underlying text was of 1067 or 1068, and that it shows the City of London's involvement in the process whereby English landowners were required to redeem or buy back their lands after the Norman Conquest. The document has a double significance. The process of redemption has hitherto been understood through Domesday Book and narrative sources, but this text shows how the process of redemption was carried out to an extent that has not been possible before, thus exposing one of the key phases of the Conquest. The text also shows the developing relationship between London and the Conqueror, and undermines some of the exceptionalist views on how London survived the Conquest itself
Centralism and local government in Medieval England: constitutional history and assembly politics, 950-1300
No full textThere is an extensive literature on English government in the middle ages, but its usefulness is limited by the terms in which it has been written, and its very partial coverage of the ways in which England was governed; these shortcomings are largely due to the origins of this historiography in the constitutional history written in the 19th century. As such, much of the historiography is overly concerned with the central institutions which directly served the kings, and tends to conceive of government in terms of institutions and bureaucratic relationships. The latter does not much correspond to the shakier realities of medieval government. The assumptions of constitutional history have been questioned in recent debate by those who suggest that assembly politics may be a better means of describing the working of medieval government
Book review. Dialogus de Scaccario (The Dialogue of the Exchequer) and Constitutio Domus Regis (The Disposition of the King's Household), ed. and tr. Emilie Amt and S.D. Church
No full textNigel, bishop of Ely, and the restoration of the exchequer after the ‘anarchy’ of King Stephen's reign
No full textThis article addresses the reconstruction of the exchequer after 1154 by examining through various classes of charter evidence the careers of some of those individuals most closely involved, rather than by considering the sparse institutional records of the exchequer itself. This approach allows the chronology of the reconstruction to be better understood. More widely, consideration of the connections and interests of some of the parties helps to explain the particular trajectory of development of this institution after 1154, and to assess the role of Henry II in the reconstruction of this part of the administration
Review. A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1182–1256: Samson of Tottington to Edmund of Walpole by Antonia Gransden (Boydell and Brewer: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion 31, 2007 xxxi+354pp, ISBN 978-1-84383-324-6) £60.00
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Review: English Episcopal Acta 38: London 1229-1280. Edited by Philippa Hoskin. Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2011. cxvi + 160 pp. £60. English Episcopal Acta 39: London 1280-1303. Edited by Philippa Hoskin. Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2011. xxxvi + 341 pp. £60
No full textTestamentary records of the English and Welsh episcopate, 1200–1413. Wills, executors’ accounts and inventories, and the probate process. Edited by Woolgar. (Canterbury and York Society, 102.) Pp. lvii + 360. Woodbridge: Boydell Press (for the Canterbury and York Society), 2011. £25. 978 0 907239 74 1; 0262 995X
No full textStephen of Whitby’s Account of the Foundation of St Mary’s
No full textThis piece of nearly 25,000 words presents for the first time an edition of this important late eleventh-century text based on all manuscripts, together with a translation, where hitherto only an inaccurate version based on one late manuscript has been available in print. Accompanying this is a substantial essay in which I defend the wrongly-questioned authenticity of the account, and in which I compare it with similar accounts from England and France in order to establish its nature as a text somewhere between the genres of foundation history and monastic autobiography
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