The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society

Name: The Winchester Pipe Rolls and Medieval English Society
Brand: Boydell Press
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By Richard Britnell

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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 a century, 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 number of 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. RICHARD BRITNELL is Professor of History at the University of Durham.

Product details

Number of Pages:

224

Release Date:

2003-10-01

Publication Date:

2003-10-01

Publisher:

Boydell Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1843830299

ISBN13:

9781843830290

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

505 g

Height:

161 cm

Width:

240 cm

Thickness:

17 cm

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