Medieval Collection

"This volume prints all the surviving legible accounts belonging to the abbacy of Godfrey of Crowland. The most important of them are three magnificent sets of enrolled accounts for the years 1300-01,1307-08 and 1309-10 covering manors assigned to the abbot's endowment, largely, but not exclusively, in Northamptonshire. These, and the remaining accounts, provide a full picture of estate exploitation at a time when the so-called classical manor, with...

The manuscript of the register of the gild of St Katherine, Stamford (Gonville and Caius MSS 266/670), has been known for some time and consulted by a small number of scholars, but it has not been more generally available. This edition is intended to make it more widely accessible for study. The gild met in the room over the porch of the parish church of St Paul in Stamford, a church which for more than a century housed an anchoress on the north side....

Gives year and explanation of laws that were created, which are of help to the genealogist.

"Over about two-thirds of Ireland the Anglo-Normans established themselves in baronies, settling down to exploit the land in their own interests and partly in the interests of the king of England. This new book studies one of these baronies, the Earldom of Ulster, and by using archaeological and documentary evidence shows how it functioned in medieval Ireland. It discusses where the Anglo-Normans actually settled in Ulster and when; the resources...