Overview

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.

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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 *

This wide-ranging book will henceforth provide an invaluable point of reference for further work on this magnificent series of documents. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEWThese 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 aih contains several substantial and important pieces.. The contributors successfully achieve their aim of celebrat

This wide-ranging book will henceforth provide an invaluable point of reference for further work on this magnificent series of documents. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEWThese 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

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NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy J.R.D. (Rob) FALCONER is an Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada.

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