Medieval Society and the Manor Court

Zvi Razi, Richard M. Smith, Paul R. Hyams, Lloyd Bonfield, L. R. Poos, Elaine Clark, Peter Franklin, Ralph Evans, A. D. M. Barrell, R. R. Davies, O. J. Padel, Ll. B. Smith, Paul D. A. Harvey, Phillipp R. Schofield, Rodney Hilton, H. S. A. Fox, Judith Cripps, and Janet Williamson

ISBN 10: 0198201907 / ISBN 13: 9780198201908

Edité par Clarendon Press, 1996

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1996 OUP hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition.

Contents:

1. The Origins of the English Manorial Court Rolls as a Written Record: A Puzzle;
2. What did Edwardian Villagers Understand by Law?; 3. What did English Villagers Mean by 'Customary Law'?;
4. The Development of Deathbed Transfers in Medieval English Manor Courts;
5. Charitable Bequests, Deathbed Land Sales, and the Manor Court in Later Medieval England;
6. Politics in Manorial Court Rolls: The Tactics, Social Composition, and Aims of a pre-1381 Peasant Movement;
7. Merton College?s Control of its Tenants at Thorncroft, 1270-1349;
8. The Dyffryn Clwyd Court Roll Project, 1340-1352 and 1389-1399:
A Methodology and Some Preliminary Findings;
9. The Population History of Medieval English Villages: A Debate on the Use of Manor Court Records;
10. Intrafamilial Ties and Relationships in the Medieval Village: A Quantitative Approach Employing Manor Court Rolls;
11. The Peasant Land Market in Medieval England - and Beyond;
12. The Late Medieval View of Frankpledge and the Tithing System: An Essex Case Study;
13. A Periodic Market and its Impact upon a Manorial Community: Botesdale, Suffolk, and the Manor of Redgrave, 1280-1300;
14. Low-level Urbanization: The Seigneurial Borough of Thornbury in the Middle Ages;
15. Exploitation of the Landless by Lords and Tenants in Early Medieval England.

N° de réf. du vendeur 1U-TWTE-2AEQ

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Medieval Society and the Manor Court
• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198201907
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198201908
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Moyen
• État de la jaquette: Satisfaisant
• Dimensions: 16,2 L x 24,46 H x 4,53 P (centimètres) 16,2 centimètres de largeur par 24,46 centimètres de hauteur par 4,53 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1338 grammes
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

The records of manorial courts have been used increasingly as the principal source for the reconstruction of rural and small town society in Medieval England. They offer a unique source with which to investigate peasant demography, family patterns, the village community and economy, the characteristics and instruments of customary law and the ways in which that law was perceived and exploited by landlords and tenants. The essays in this collection provide novel approaches to all of these themes and are written by many of the historians who have pioneered the use of this source category in the last two decades.

In two introductory chapters, the editors review the historiography of manorial court rolls and account for their origins as a distinctive record of customary law within the broad context of medieval European society. A valuable appendix contains an inventory of the most comprehensive manorial court roll series arranged systematically on a county-to-county basis, detailing the repository in which they are located. This book will serve as an essential reference tool for any serious study of medieval English rural society.

Revue de presse

a volume that attempts to draw together previous work on court rolls in a logical fashion and to provide markers for future research is particularly welcome ... To this end, Razi and Smith have done an excellent job ... the importance of the themes and debates here is undoubted, and this volume must be considered essential reading for anyone at all interested in the subject. (John Langdon, University of Alberta, The Economic History Review, Volume L, No. 3, August 1997)

this is a useful book, with some truly exceptional and important essays. (Edwin R Dewindt, The American Journal of Legal History, Vol XLII 1998)

the importance of the themes and debates here is undoubted, and this volume must be considered essential reading for anyone at all interested in the subject (John Langdon, University of Alberta, The Economic History Review, Volume L, No. 3, August 1997)

The appearance of a volume dedicated to demonstrating the use of court roll evidence for a variety of inquiries into agrarian history is a welcome event for historians of late-medieval rural England. This work... contributes to our growing confidence that much that is very meaningful can be known about the lives of the great mass of Europeans of the premodern era. The survey of court roll depositories in England... should be a boon to scholars employing these records. (Sherri Olson, Speculum, Juy 1999)

It falls to an early modernist consumer of court rolls to review this excellent book and gawp at the richness of the medieval documentary record./ ... the book is a considerable achievement, a great pleasure to read and muse over. After these riches, who is going to produce a parallel volume on the manor court in the two centuries before the Civil War? Someone ought to./ R. W. Hoyle, The Agricultural History Review, Vol 46, part 2, 1998.

This book represents a landmark in the study of medieval manorial court rolls ... The contributors to this collection reflect in their essays a wide range of the historical themes which benefit from the analysis. (Christopher Dyer, University of Birmingham, Rural History - Vol 8, Part 2 - 1997)

For historians of medieval rural society, this is something more than a feast. It contains papers from a very distinguished group of historians, and offers debate and information on a wide range of issues in this difficult but vastly rewarding area of research. (The Historical Association 1998)