The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society
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The accounts of one of the great estates of medieval England, from 1209. A remarkable survival, they supply detailed evidence on a range of issues.
The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in the world, supplying detailed evidence for agriculture, prices, wages, the land market and peasant society in an exceptionally well-preserved sequence from 1209 onwards. They have attracted the attention of historians of medieval economy and society for over acentury, first in deposit in the Public Record Office, more recently in Hampshire Record Office.
The essays collected here celebrate their survival and demonstrate their quality, putting them into perspective as a documentary source, and assessing how far their evidence is representative of England as a whole. The volume also demonstrates some of the new ways in which they are being put to use to enhance knowledge of medieval England, with a numberof the articles concerned with recent research projects. The book is completed with a handlist of these records up to 1455, the year in which the bishopric administration started to keep its accounts in registers rather than rolls.
Contributors: RICHARD H. BRITNELL, BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL, JOHN LANGDON, JOHN MULLAN, MARK PAGE, K. J. STOCKS, CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT.
The late RICHARD BRITNELL was Professor of History at the University of Durham.
The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere in the world, supplying detailed evidence for agriculture, prices, wages, the land market and peasant society in an exceptionally well-preserved sequence from 1209 onwards. They have attracted the attention of historians of medieval economy and society for over acentury, first in deposit in the Public Record Office, more recently in Hampshire Record Office.
The essays collected here celebrate their survival and demonstrate their quality, putting them into perspective as a documentary source, and assessing how far their evidence is representative of England as a whole. The volume also demonstrates some of the new ways in which they are being put to use to enhance knowledge of medieval England, with a numberof the articles concerned with recent research projects. The book is completed with a handlist of these records up to 1455, the year in which the bishopric administration started to keep its accounts in registers rather than rolls.
Contributors: RICHARD H. BRITNELL, BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL, JOHN LANGDON, JOHN MULLAN, MARK PAGE, K. J. STOCKS, CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT.
The late RICHARD BRITNELL was Professor of History at the University of Durham.
The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Their Historians - Richard H Britnell
A Unique Estate and a Unique Source: the Winchester Pipe Rolls in Perspective -
Payments to Manorial Courts in the Early Winchester Accounts - Katharine Martin
The Peasant Land Market on the Estate of the Bishopric of Winchester before the Black Death - Mark Page
The Land Market on the Estates of the Bishopric of Winchester 1348-1362 - John Mullan
The Level of Arable Productivity on the Bishopric of Winchester's Manor of Taunton, 1283-1348 - Christopher Thornton
Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester's Estate in the Early Fourteenth Century [with Jill Walker and John R Falconer]John R Falconer] - John Langdon
Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester's Estate in the Early Fourteenth Century [with Jill Walker and John Langdon]Langdon] - J Rob Falconer
The Politics of Church and State as Reflected in the Winchester Pipe Rolls, 1208-1280 - Nicholas C. Vincent
A Unique Estate and a Unique Source: the Winchester Pipe Rolls in Perspective -
Payments to Manorial Courts in the Early Winchester Accounts - Katharine Martin
The Peasant Land Market on the Estate of the Bishopric of Winchester before the Black Death - Mark Page
The Land Market on the Estates of the Bishopric of Winchester 1348-1362 - John Mullan
The Level of Arable Productivity on the Bishopric of Winchester's Manor of Taunton, 1283-1348 - Christopher Thornton
Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester's Estate in the Early Fourteenth Century [with Jill Walker and John R Falconer]John R Falconer] - John Langdon
Boom and Bust: Building Investment on the Bishop of Winchester's Estate in the Early Fourteenth Century [with Jill Walker and John Langdon]Langdon] - J Rob Falconer
The Politics of Church and State as Reflected in the Winchester Pipe Rolls, 1208-1280 - Nicholas C. Vincent
"This wide-ranging book will henceforth provide an invaluable point of reference for further work on this magnificent series of documents." AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW
"These essays show the Winchester pipe rolls to be noble indeed." MEDIEVAL REVIEW
"Overall, this is a high quality collection which contains several substantial and important pieces.. The contributors successfully achieve their aim of celebrating the pipe rolls by showing some of the unparalleled strengths of the source." REVIEWS IN HISTORY
Hardcover
9781843830290
October 2003
£70.00 / $105.00
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