The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society

Black cloth boards, title label affixed front panel, excellent condition. Collection of papers presented at the 1999 conference held at the Hampshire Record Office, plus additional works. ; MCN34383; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 213 pp

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 1843830299

ISBN-13: 9781843830290

Publisher: Boydell Press

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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