English Episcopal Acta 46 Format: Hardback

A new volume in the English Episcopal Acta series, this book draws together for the first time the surviving documents issued by the bishops of the small diocese of Rochester from the mid-thirteenth to the early-fourteenth century: men who varied from local monks to members of national government. These are administrative records but not just concerned with the dry details of bureaucracy. They provide us with a way to access the concerns and lives of ordinary individuals in one part of medieval England. The volume contains full texts of the Latin documents with English descriptions to help users, and a detailed introduction puts the records, and the diocese of Rochester, in their medieval context.

Philippa Hoskin is a member of the Faulty of Divinity and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge where she is Director of the Parker Library. She has written extensively on the medieval English Church and has particular expertise in the scholarly editing of medieval documents, producing both print and digital editions. She is a Vice-President of the Canterbury and York Society and general editor of the Lincoln Record Society Kathleen Major Series of Medieval Records, and the British Academy's English Episcopal Acta Project.