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First ever translation of the Fine Rolls makes documents of crucial
importance for study of the period fully available for the first
time. The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English
royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all
manner of concessions and favours, they are central to the study of
political, governmental, legal, social and economic history. The
reign of Henry III [1216-1272] is a particularly rich period for
surviving documents; there are some 56 rolls preserved in the
National Archives, one for each regnal year. However, despite the
light they shed on politics, government, and society, they have
never previously been properly edited or published, and these
fully-indexed volumes - covering the period up to 1248 - will
therefore be widely welcomed. The Latin rolls are presented in
English translation, with all identifiable place-names modernised,
although the original forms are preserved; and each volume includes
full person, place and subject indexes. This second volume covers
as importantand dramatic a period of English history as does the
first. The years between 1224 and 1234 witnessed the issue of the
final and definitive version of Magna Carta, the ending of the
king's minority, his French campaign of 1230,the fall of the
justiciar, Hubert de Burgh in 1232, the subsequent regime of Peter
des Roches, bishop of Winchester, the civil war which followed
Peter's apparent defiance of Magna Carta, and finally in 1234 the
restoration of lawful consensual rule.
The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English royal
chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all manner of
concessions and favours, they are central to the study of
political, governmental, legal, social and economic history. The
reign of Henry III (1216-1272) is a particularly rich period for
surviving documents; there are some 56 rolls preserved in the
National Archives, one for each regnal year. However, despite the
light they shed on politics, government, and society, they have
never previously been properly edited or published, and these
fully-indexed volumes - covering the period up to 1248 - will
therefore be widely welcomed. The Latin rolls are presented in
English translation, with all identifiable place-names modernised,
although the original forms are preserved; and each volume includes
full person, place and subject indexes. This volume covers in some
detail the first phase of Henry's personal rule, which began in
1234. The rolls provide key evidence both for the great reform of
the realm following Henry's marriage to Eleanor of Provence in 1236
and for the concessions by which Henry encouraged participation in
his Poitevin campaign of 1242. In two years when fine rolls are
missing the volume prints originalia rolls (copies of the fine
rolls sent to the Exchequer) in their place, thus enabling detailed
examination of the processes by which the king raised his revenue.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension.
The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a
valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the
medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of
'nobility', its relationship with the late Roman world, its
acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military
obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing
instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as
England (before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian
peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German
empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to
the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN
AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H.
JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A
REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD
New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century.
The years between 1258 and 67 comprise one of the most influential
periods in the Middle Ages in England. This turbulent decade
witnessed a bitter power struggle between King Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays collected here offer the most recent research into and
ideas onthis pivotal period. Several contributions focus upon the
roles played in the political struggle by particular sections of
thirteenth-century society, including the Midland knights and their
political allegiances, aristocratic women, and the merchant elite
in London. The events themselves constitute the second major theme
of this volume, with subjects such as the secret revolution of
1258, Henry III's recovery of power in 1261, and the little studied
maritime theatre during the civil wars of 1263-7 being considered.
Adrian Jobson is an Associate Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church
University. Contributors: Sophie Ambler, Nick Barratt, David
Carpenter, PeterCoss, Mario Fernandes, Andrew H. Hershey, Adrian
Jobson, Lars Kjaer, John A. McEwan, Tony Moore, Fergus Oakes, H.W.
Ridgeway, Christopher David Tilley, Benjamin L. Wild, Louise J.
Wilkinson.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension. LOUISE J.
WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln;
DAVID CROOK is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of
Notthingham. Contributors: Nick Barratt, Paul Brand, David
Carpenter, David Crook, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Philippa
Hoskin, Charles Insley, Adrian Jobson, Tony Moore, Alice Taylor,
Nicholas Vincent, Scott Waugh, Louise Wilkinson
Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time
of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The
years between the deaths of King Mael Coluim and Queen Margaret in
1093 and King Alexander III in 1286 witnessed the formation of a
kingdom resembling the Scotland we know today, which was a full
member of the European club ofmonarchies; the period is also marked
by an explosion in the production of documents. This volume
includes a range of new studies casting fresh light on the
institutions and people of the Scottish kingdom, especially in
thethirteenth century. New perspectives are offered on topics as
diverse as the limited reach of Scottish royal administration and
justice, the ties that bound the unfree to their lords, the extent
of a political community in the time of King Alexander II, a view
of Europeanization from the spread of a common material culture,
the role of a major Cistercian monastery in the kingdom and the
broader world, and the idea of the neighbourhood in Scots law.
There are also chapters on the corpus of charters and names and the
innovative technology behind the People of Medieval Scotland
prosopographical database, which made use of over 6000 individual
documents from the period. Matthew Hammond is a Research Associate
at the University of Glasgow. Contributors: John Bradley, Stuart
Campbell, David Carpenter, Matthew Hammond, Emilia Jamroziak,
Cynthia Neville, Michele Pasin, Keith Stringer, Alice Taylor.
The official records of England are the focus of this volume -
their origin, their use, and what they reveal. The major theme of
this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they
are used separately and in combination to construct the history of
England and Normandy. The essays cover all types of written source
material,including private charters and the official records of the
chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal sources such as
letters, while some 100 previously unpublished documents are
included in a series of appendices. There arestudies here of
particular Anglo-Normans, including a great aristocrat and a
seneschal of Normandy; of records relating to Normandy surviving in
England; of the Norman and English Exchequers, between them the
financial mainstay of the king/dukes; of the controversial origins
of the English Chancery records; and of Rosamund Clifford, the
King's mistress. CONTRIBUTORS: NICHOLAS VINCENT, DAVID CARPENTER,
DAVID CROOK, MARK HAGGER, DAVID CROUCH, MARIE LOVATT, DANIEL POWER.
Aspects of the political, social, cultural, economic and
ecclesiastical history of medieval England re-examined. This
collection presents new and original research into the long
thirteenth century, from c.1180-c.1330, with a particular focus on
the reign of Edward II and its aftermath. Other topics examined
include crown finances, markets and fairs, royal stewards, the
aftermath of the Barons' War, Wace's Roman de Brut, and authority
in Yorkshire nunneries; and the volume also follows the tradition
of the series by looking beyond England, with contributions onthe
role of Joan, wife of Llywelyn the Great in Anglo-Welsh relations,
Dublin, and English landholding in Ireland, while the continental
connection is represented by a comparison of aspects of English and
French kingship. Contributors: David Carpenter, Nick Barratt,
Emilia Jamroziak, Michael Ray, Susan Stewart, Louise J. Wilkinson,
Sean Duffy, Beth Hartland, Francoise Le Saux, Henry Summerson,
Janet Burton, H.S.A. Fox, David Crook, Margo Todd,Seymour Phillips
Papers on aspects of the growth of royal government during the
century. The size and jurisdiction of English royal government
underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an
understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval
English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the
development of central government, law and justice, and the crown
and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy
and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal
Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the
rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a
licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of
local justice; women as sheriffs; and a Nottinghamshire study
examining the tensions between the role of the king as manorial
lord and as monarch. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, PAUL R. BRAND,
DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, ANTHONY MUSSON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT,
LOUISE WILKINSON
This series is home to scholarship of the highest order covering a
wide range of themes: from politics and warfare to administration,
justice and society. The topics of the papers in this book range
from the sublime to the macabre: romance, rape, money, politics and
religion. Wide-ranging papers cover many themes: the role of
knights in the civil war at the end of John's reign, the politics
of Ireland at the time of Richard Marshal's rebellion, the
crusading context of the de Montfort family, the Petition of the
Barons of 1258, and the government of England during Edward I's
absence on crusade form one group of papers which illuminate the
politics of the period. The history of the Jews in their final days
in England is examined, as are the techniques used to supply Edward
I's armies. Legal matters are considered, with papers on manorial
courts, capital punishment, and the offence of rape. Romance is
treated in a historical context with Edward I's marriage plans of
1294. Also included is discussion of the dissemination of the Sarum
rite, the building of Westminster Abbey, ecclesiastical mints, and
Matthew Paris's maps. Contributors: MARTIN ALLEN, DAVID CARPENTER,
DAVIDCROOK, KATHERINE FAULKNER, PETER EDBURY, PAUL HARVEY, RICHARD
HUSCROFT, NIGEL MORGAN, MARK ORMROD, ZEFIRA ROKEAH, CORINNE
SAUNDERS, BRENDAN SMITH, KATHERINE STOCKS, HENRY SUMMERSON, MARK
VAUGHN.
A window into the thirteenth century is provided by the publication
of these important documents - a crucial source for medieval
history. The Fine Rolls were the earliest rolls kept by the English
royal chancery. Recording offers of money to the king for all
manner of concessions and favours, they are central to the study of
political, governmental, legal, social and economic history. This
volume is the first in a series which aims to publish the fine
rolls of the reign of Henry III [1216-1272], a particularly rich
period for surviving documents; there are some 56 rolls preserved
in the National Archives, one for each regnal year. However,
despite the light they shed on politics, government, and society,
they have never previously been properly edited or published, and
these fully-indexed volumes - covering the period up to 1248 - will
therefore be widely welcomed. The Latin rolls are presented in
English translation, with all identifiable place-names modernised,
although the original forms are preserved; and each volume includes
full person,place and subject indexes. This first volume includes
an introduction [by David Carpenter] to the series as a whole and
also to developments in the rolls between 1216 and 1234. The period
covered here was as dramatic as it was important, witnessing the
accession of Henry III at the age of nine in October 1216, the
winning of the civil war left by his father King John, the slow
re-building of royal authority shattered by hostilities, the
rebellion ofFalkes de Breaute in 1224, and the acceptance by the
minority government (in new versions) of what John had rejected,
namely Magna Carta.
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