RECORDS, ADMINISTRATION AND ARISTOCRATIC SOCIETY IN THE ANGLO-NORMAN REALM: PAPERS COMMEMORATING THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF KING JOHN'S LOSS OF NORMANDY

VINCENT, Nicholas.

ISBN 10: 1843834855 / ISBN 13: 9781843834854

Published by Boydell Press, Woodbridge,, 2009

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First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. Original publishers illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. 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 charter. ISBN: 1843834855 Pages: 226 Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: RECORDS, ADMINISTRATION AND ARISTOCRATIC SOCIETY IN THE ANGLO-NORMAN REALM: PAPERS COMMEMORATING THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF KING JOHN'S LOSS OF NORMANDY
• Publisher: Boydell Press, Woodbridge,
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843834855
• ISBN 13: 9781843834854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

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records of the chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal sources such as letters, while some 100 previously unpublished documents are included in a series of appendices.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.

About the Authors

NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

Daniel Power is Professor of Medieval History at Swansea University. He is the author of a number of works concerning France and the British Isles in the Central Middle Ages, including The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (of London) and of the Royal Historical Society.

DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood.

David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding.

MARK HAGGER is a reader in medieval history at Bangor University.