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This three-volume edition provides translations of the Goldsmiths'
Company Register of Deeds with full explicatory annotation, and
with a clear introduction to both the manuscript and the legal
texts contained in it. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths,
commonly known as the Goldsmiths' Company, is one of the twelve
Great Livery Companies of the City of London. This three-volume
edition provides translations of the company's Register of Deeds
with full explicatory annotation and with a clear introduction to
both the manuscript and the legal texts contained within.
Additionally, the volumes contain detailed name and subject
indexes. The company's Register of Deeds has never been fully
utilised by historians, but it contains a record copy made from the
fifteenth century onwards of the original deeds of the company's
acquisitions of property from the reign of King Richard I to the
seventeenth century. These deeds reveal much about the precise
location of properties and their inhabitants. Wills, often
appearing in the Register, help to piece together a social history
of the time. Charitable purposes were often the reason for monies
or property bequeathed to the Goldsmiths, sometimes of an
educational nature, or of almsgiving to the poor, or for the
training and support of young goldsmiths and silversmiths. Many
documents also concern women, either acting solely in their own
name or jointly with a husband, sometimes also appearing as
daughters or sisters, providing evidence regarding their legal
position during the medieval and early modern period. The editing
and translation of these documents (from Latin and French into
modern-day English) will be of great use to historians interested
in the buildings of medieval and Tudor London and their use as
personal or business premises. But beyond these obvious confines,
these so far hidden sources will help to rewrite a social, legal,
and economic history of medieval and Tudor London. SPECIAL
INTRODUCTORY PRICE: GBP395/$575. Rises to full price GBP450/$650 on
1st January 2023.
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages
of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain
are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to
be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality
of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe
relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function
or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all
the articles collected here from leading international experts in
their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history,
sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and
texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in
fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records
from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work
done on the bridges of the river Thames. Contributors: PAUL BRAND,
BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA
JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER,
WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A.
TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT Professor D.A. TROTTER is
Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The two earliest Goldsmiths' record books reveal details of working
practices, financial accounts, apprentices, civic events such as
pageants, misdeeds broght before the wardens, and much else
besides. The goldsmiths of London had formed an organised guild, or
mistery (in the medieval sense of "craft" or "profession") by the
twelfth century. Granted their first royal charter in 1327 by
Edward III, they are one of the twelve great livery companies, and
still oversee the work of goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellers.
Published here for the first time are their two earliest record
books, presented in the original languages, French (Anglo-Norman),
Englishand Latin, with a facing-page translation into modern
English. From these full records valuable and lively detail
emerges: the working practices of gold and silversmiths, the
financial accounts of the wardens, apprentices admitted,
participation in civic events such as pageants, and records of
offences (both professional and personal) brought before the
disciplinary court. The edition is accompanied by a full
introduction, a bibliography, a subject index and a complete name
index. LISA JEFFERSON, MA, D Phil, FSA, is a medievalist who works
both in Oxford and in France.
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Arthurian Literature XV (Hardcover)
James P. Carley, Felicity Riddy; Contributions by David Allan, Jeanne Krochalis, Karen Cherewatuk, …
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`[The series is an indispensable component of any historical or
Arthurian library.' NOTES AND QUERIES This latest issue of
Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal in
combining theoretical studies with editions of primary Arthurian
texts. There is a special focus on Chretien de Troyes, with
articles considering his identity, providing a new reading of Le
Chevalier de la Charrete, and giving an account of a discovery of
an important new fragment of the First Continuation. Other essays
deal with Glastonbury, at the heart of the English Arthurian
legend;the Scottish treatment of the Arthur story in the
Reformation period; and the Morte Darthur in the context of
fifteenth-century chivalric encyclopaedias. Contributors: SARAH
KAY, NICK CORBYN, LISA JEFFERSON, AELRED WATKIN, JEANNE KROCHALIS,
DAVID ALLAN, KAREN CHEREWATUK
As the premier livery company, the Mercers Company in medieval
England enjoyed a prominent role in London's governance and
exercised much influence over England's overseas trade and
political interests. This substantial two-volume set provides a
comprehensive edition of the surviving Mercers' accounts from 1347
to 1464, and opens a unique window into the day-to-day workings of
one of England's most powerful institutions at the height of its
influence. The accounts list income, derived from fees for
apprentices and entry fees, from fines (whose cause is usually
given, sometimes with many details), from gifts and bequests, from
property rents, and from other sources, and then list expenditures:
on salaries to priests and chaplains, to the beadle, the
rent-collector, and to scribes and scriveners; on alms payments; on
quit-rents due on their properties; on repairs to properties; and
on a whole host of other costs, differing from year to year, and
including court cases, special furnishings for the chapel or Hall,
negotiations over trade with Burgundy, transport costs, funeral
costs or those for attendance at state occasions, etc. Included
also in some years are ordinances, deeds and other material of
which they wanted to ensure a record was kept. Beginning with an
early account for 1347-48, and the company's ordinances of that
year, the accounts preserved form an entire block from 1390 until
1464. The material is arranged in facing-page format, with an
accurate edition of the original text mirrored by a translation
into modern English. A substantial introduction describes the
manuscripts in full detail and explains the accounting system used
by the Mercers and the financial vocabulary associated with it.
Exhaustive name and subject indexes ensure that the material is
easily accessible and this edition will become an essential tool
for all studying the social, cultural or economic developments of
late-medieval England.
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