Michael Wood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199557660
- eISBN:
- 9780191701726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557660.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a turbulent and dangerous world. Poetry must introduce order and shape where there is none, and ...
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This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a turbulent and dangerous world. Poetry must introduce order and shape where there is none, and also, in certain crucial cases, remain faithful to the disorder and shapelessness of experience. Many poems manage the first of these tasks; very few manage both. W. B. Yeats ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ (written and first published in 1921) is one of them. It is a work which asks what happens when what is taken to be civilization crumbles. What apocalyptic events wait in the wings? What are history's victims (and executors) to do except mock and mourn? Successive chapters investigate the six parts of the poem, connecting them to Yeats' broader poetic practice, his interest in the occult and his changing vision of Irish nationalism; to the work of other poets (Irish, English, Russian German); and to Irish and European history between 1916 (the date of the Easter Uprising in Dublin) and 1923 (the date of the end of the Irish Civil War). Theoretical considerations of the shape and meaning of violence, both political and religious, link the chapters to each other.Less
This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a turbulent and dangerous world. Poetry must introduce order and shape where there is none, and also, in certain crucial cases, remain faithful to the disorder and shapelessness of experience. Many poems manage the first of these tasks; very few manage both. W. B. Yeats ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ (written and first published in 1921) is one of them. It is a work which asks what happens when what is taken to be civilization crumbles. What apocalyptic events wait in the wings? What are history's victims (and executors) to do except mock and mourn? Successive chapters investigate the six parts of the poem, connecting them to Yeats' broader poetic practice, his interest in the occult and his changing vision of Irish nationalism; to the work of other poets (Irish, English, Russian German); and to Irish and European history between 1916 (the date of the Easter Uprising in Dublin) and 1923 (the date of the end of the Irish Civil War). Theoretical considerations of the shape and meaning of violence, both political and religious, link the chapters to each other.
Thorlac Turville-Petre
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122791
- eISBN:
- 9780191671548
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122791.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book pays attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. It surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Geoffrey Chaucer, and ...
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This book pays attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. It surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Geoffrey Chaucer, and explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language. At the centre of this work is a study of the construction of national identity that takes place in the histories written in English. The contributions of romances and saints' lives to an awareness of the nation's past are also considered, as is the question of how writers were able to reconcile their sense of regional identity with commitment to the nation. A final chapter explores the interrelationship between England's three languages, Latin, French and English, at a time when English was attaining the status of the national language. Middle English quotations are translated into modern English throughout.Less
This book pays attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. It surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Geoffrey Chaucer, and explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language. At the centre of this work is a study of the construction of national identity that takes place in the histories written in English. The contributions of romances and saints' lives to an awareness of the nation's past are also considered, as is the question of how writers were able to reconcile their sense of regional identity with commitment to the nation. A final chapter explores the interrelationship between England's three languages, Latin, French and English, at a time when English was attaining the status of the national language. Middle English quotations are translated into modern English throughout.
Sheila Delany
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195109887
- eISBN:
- 9780199855216
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109887.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book breaks important ground in 15th-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. The book examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, and explores the relations ...
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This book breaks important ground in 15th-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. The book examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, and explores the relations of history and literature in this particularly turbulent period in English history, beginning with The Wars of the Roses and moving on to the Hundred Years War. The book examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447. The book is organized around the image of the body—a medieval procedure becoming popular once again in current attention to the social construction of the body. One emphasis is Bokenham's relation to the body of English literature, particularly Chaucer, the symbolic head of the 15th century. Another emphasis is a focus on the genre of saints' lives, particularly female saints' lives, with their striking use of the body of the saint to generate meaning. Finally, the image of the body politic, the controlling image of medieval political thought is given, and Bokenham's means to examine the political and dynastic crises of 15th-century England. The book uses these three major concerns to explain the literary innovation of Bokenham's Legend, and the larger and political importance of that innovation.Less
This book breaks important ground in 15th-century scholarship, a critical site of cultural study. The book examines the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, and explores the relations of history and literature in this particularly turbulent period in English history, beginning with The Wars of the Roses and moving on to the Hundred Years War. The book examines the first collection of all female saints' lives in any language: Legends of Holy Women composed by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447. The book is organized around the image of the body—a medieval procedure becoming popular once again in current attention to the social construction of the body. One emphasis is Bokenham's relation to the body of English literature, particularly Chaucer, the symbolic head of the 15th century. Another emphasis is a focus on the genre of saints' lives, particularly female saints' lives, with their striking use of the body of the saint to generate meaning. Finally, the image of the body politic, the controlling image of medieval political thought is given, and Bokenham's means to examine the political and dynastic crises of 15th-century England. The book uses these three major concerns to explain the literary innovation of Bokenham's Legend, and the larger and political importance of that innovation.
Michael Wood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199557660
- eISBN:
- 9780191701726
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557660.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the plan of Y. B. Yeats's poem, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, which is the focus of this book. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the plan of Y. B. Yeats's poem, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, which is the focus of this book. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to give an account of the way plan and structure meet and clash in the poem, of the tunes they make, and of the ways in which the whole formation connects to the historical world.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the plan of Y. B. Yeats's poem, ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, which is the focus of this book. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to give an account of the way plan and structure meet and clash in the poem, of the tunes they make, and of the ways in which the whole formation connects to the historical world.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter locates the 1279–80 hundred rolls in the inquiring culture evident in many parts of 13th-century Europe. It examines Edward I's other English inquiries, most particularly those of ...
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This chapter locates the 1279–80 hundred rolls in the inquiring culture evident in many parts of 13th-century Europe. It examines Edward I's other English inquiries, most particularly those of 1274–5, and the legislation which followed them, and also the 1255 hundred roll inquiry of Henry III's reign. Tables give circuits and commissioners for the 1255 and 1274–5 inquiries together with a discussion of their articles of inquiry. Comparisons are drawn with Edward's other inquiries in Gascony, the Channel Islands, and Wales.Less
This chapter locates the 1279–80 hundred rolls in the inquiring culture evident in many parts of 13th-century Europe. It examines Edward I's other English inquiries, most particularly those of 1274–5, and the legislation which followed them, and also the 1255 hundred roll inquiry of Henry III's reign. Tables give circuits and commissioners for the 1255 and 1274–5 inquiries together with a discussion of their articles of inquiry. Comparisons are drawn with Edward's other inquiries in Gascony, the Channel Islands, and Wales.
John Baker
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197266588
- eISBN:
- 9780191896040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266588.003.0002
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This chapter examines the likelihood that celebrated individuals were commemorated in the names of assembly sites as part of a display of political authority or cultural affiliation. Focusing ...
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This chapter examines the likelihood that celebrated individuals were commemorated in the names of assembly sites as part of a display of political authority or cultural affiliation. Focusing primarily on the names of Domesday hundreds, it draws comparisons with the personal names in other well-established Anglo-Saxon corpora (including charter bounds, narrative sources, Domesday Book and place-names), in order to assess the social context of those individuals commemorated in hundred-names. The chapter then evaluates the probability that such names could carry specific political or cultural resonance at the time of naming, and there are clear indications that this may sometimes have been the case, perhaps especially in the first half of the 10th century. While the evidence implies that the hundred-names arose in a number of different circumstances, the analysis suggests that reference to heroic figures may have been one motivating factor in the naming of sites of assembly.Less
This chapter examines the likelihood that celebrated individuals were commemorated in the names of assembly sites as part of a display of political authority or cultural affiliation. Focusing primarily on the names of Domesday hundreds, it draws comparisons with the personal names in other well-established Anglo-Saxon corpora (including charter bounds, narrative sources, Domesday Book and place-names), in order to assess the social context of those individuals commemorated in hundred-names. The chapter then evaluates the probability that such names could carry specific political or cultural resonance at the time of naming, and there are clear indications that this may sometimes have been the case, perhaps especially in the first half of the 10th century. While the evidence implies that the hundred-names arose in a number of different circumstances, the analysis suggests that reference to heroic figures may have been one motivating factor in the naming of sites of assembly.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter examines the way in which the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry was executed. It provides a table of counties and their commissioners. It explores the background of commissioners and provides ...
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This chapter examines the way in which the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry was executed. It provides a table of counties and their commissioners. It explores the background of commissioners and provides a translation of the oath they took. The chapter reconstructs the complex way in which oral responses to the articles of inquiry were collected from juries and dealt with alongside written submissions from lords. It notes the distinctive nature of urban returns, especially London. It examines the timescale of the inquiry, with particular reference to the two different sets of returns for Normancross hundred in Huntingdonshire. It also considers the incidence of valuations on some rolls and the significance of their treatment.Less
This chapter examines the way in which the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry was executed. It provides a table of counties and their commissioners. It explores the background of commissioners and provides a translation of the oath they took. The chapter reconstructs the complex way in which oral responses to the articles of inquiry were collected from juries and dealt with alongside written submissions from lords. It notes the distinctive nature of urban returns, especially London. It examines the timescale of the inquiry, with particular reference to the two different sets of returns for Normancross hundred in Huntingdonshire. It also considers the incidence of valuations on some rolls and the significance of their treatment.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter outlines the nature of each of the surviving 1279–80 hundred rolls circuit by circuit. Each circuit is divided into its constituent counties and each county into its constituent ...
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This chapter outlines the nature of each of the surviving 1279–80 hundred rolls circuit by circuit. Each circuit is divided into its constituent counties and each county into its constituent hundreds. Appendix 1 provides an alphabetical list of references to the manuscripts of surviving rolls and any printed editions.Less
This chapter outlines the nature of each of the surviving 1279–80 hundred rolls circuit by circuit. Each circuit is divided into its constituent counties and each county into its constituent hundreds. Appendix 1 provides an alphabetical list of references to the manuscripts of surviving rolls and any printed editions.
William Chester Jordan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164953
- eISBN:
- 9781400866397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164953.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out ...
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At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. This book explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood. The book weaves an historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. The book vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons. The book provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.Less
At the height of the Middle Ages, a peculiar system of perpetual exile— or abjuration—flourished in western Europe. It was a judicial form of exile, not political or religious, and it was meted out to felons for crimes deserving of severe corporal punishment or death. This book explores the lives of these men and women who were condemned to abjure the English realm, and draws on their unique experiences to shed light on a medieval legal tradition until now very poorly understood. The book weaves an historical tapestry, examining the judicial and administrative processes that led to the abjuration of more than seventy-five thousand English subjects, and recounting the astonishing journeys of the exiles themselves. Some were innocents caught up in tragic circumstances, but many were hardened criminals. Almost every English exile departed from the port of Dover, many bound for the same French village, a place called Wissant. The book vividly describes what happened when the felons got there, and tells the stories of the few who managed to return to England, either illegally or through pardons. The book provides new insights into a fundamental pillar of medieval English law and shows how it collapsed amid the bloodshed of the Hundred Years' War.
Yoel H. Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195373295
- eISBN:
- 9780199893294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373295.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
While the Talmudic text links each of the Morning Blessings to a specific action upon waking, in practice this proved impossible. The medieval Geonim, rabbis living in Babylonia, permitted the ...
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While the Talmudic text links each of the Morning Blessings to a specific action upon waking, in practice this proved impossible. The medieval Geonim, rabbis living in Babylonia, permitted the recitation of all of these blessings in the synagogue; this was memorialized in the widely-circulated responsum of Natronai Gaon and cited in the earliest prayer books Siddur Amram and Siddur Saadia. In contrast with the more formal sections of the liturgy, the text of the Morning Blessings (also known as the One Hundred Blessings) was never canonized. As the status and influence of the Babylonian Talmud grew in succeeding generations, rabbis wrestled with how to reconcile their local traditions or customs with the apparently contradictory instructions the Talmud contained.Less
While the Talmudic text links each of the Morning Blessings to a specific action upon waking, in practice this proved impossible. The medieval Geonim, rabbis living in Babylonia, permitted the recitation of all of these blessings in the synagogue; this was memorialized in the widely-circulated responsum of Natronai Gaon and cited in the earliest prayer books Siddur Amram and Siddur Saadia. In contrast with the more formal sections of the liturgy, the text of the Morning Blessings (also known as the One Hundred Blessings) was never canonized. As the status and influence of the Babylonian Talmud grew in succeeding generations, rabbis wrestled with how to reconcile their local traditions or customs with the apparently contradictory instructions the Talmud contained.
Steven Gunn, David Grummitt, and Hans Cools
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199207503
- eISBN:
- 9780191708848
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207503.003.001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter introduces the debate on war and state formation in early modern Europe, and describes the societies and governments of Tudor England and the Habsburg Netherlands. It analyses the ...
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This chapter introduces the debate on war and state formation in early modern Europe, and describes the societies and governments of Tudor England and the Habsburg Netherlands. It analyses the legacies of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses for England, and the formation of the Burgundian state for the Netherlands. It briefly narrates the reigns, wars, and peace treaties of the period 1477-1559. In these, England and the Netherlands both repeatedly fought France, but other polities such as Scotland, Guelders, and the German Protestant principalities, and other peoples such as the Gaelic Irish and the Frisians were drawn into a web of dynastic warfare, civil wars, and rebellions.Less
This chapter introduces the debate on war and state formation in early modern Europe, and describes the societies and governments of Tudor England and the Habsburg Netherlands. It analyses the legacies of the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses for England, and the formation of the Burgundian state for the Netherlands. It briefly narrates the reigns, wars, and peace treaties of the period 1477-1559. In these, England and the Netherlands both repeatedly fought France, but other polities such as Scotland, Guelders, and the German Protestant principalities, and other peoples such as the Gaelic Irish and the Frisians were drawn into a web of dynastic warfare, civil wars, and rebellions.
Bridget Morris (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195166262
- eISBN:
- 9780199868223
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195166262.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This is the second volume of the translation of the Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. It contains Book IV and Book V, the so-called Liber Quaestionum (The Book of Questions). Book IV includes ...
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This is the second volume of the translation of the Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. It contains Book IV and Book V, the so-called Liber Quaestionum (The Book of Questions). Book IV includes some of the saint's most influential visions, especially those on the subject of the papacy, purgatory, and the Hundred Years' War. Book V takes the form of a learned dialogue between Christ and a monk standing on a ladder fixed between heaven and earth. The argument centers on the way in which God's providence is constantly misunderstood and rejected by self-centered humans; and it ranges over a number of theological issues, such as the created order of the world, justice, Christology, and the Incarnation.Less
This is the second volume of the translation of the Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. It contains Book IV and Book V, the so-called Liber Quaestionum (The Book of Questions). Book IV includes some of the saint's most influential visions, especially those on the subject of the papacy, purgatory, and the Hundred Years' War. Book V takes the form of a learned dialogue between Christ and a monk standing on a ladder fixed between heaven and earth. The argument centers on the way in which God's providence is constantly misunderstood and rejected by self-centered humans; and it ranges over a number of theological issues, such as the created order of the world, justice, Christology, and the Incarnation.
Andrew Reynolds
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197266588
- eISBN:
- 9780191896040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266588.003.0020
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The complex social and administrative fabric of Anglo-Saxon England existed largely without urban environments. Based upon patterns of naming, this chapter examines relationships between local ...
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The complex social and administrative fabric of Anglo-Saxon England existed largely without urban environments. Based upon patterns of naming, this chapter examines relationships between local administrative districts (hundreds) and central places, arguing for the long-term persistence of pre-urban modes of social organisation in Anglo-Saxon England. Following a review of urban development in Anglo-Saxon England, neglected material is brought to bear on long-standing notions of urbanism which emphasise the progressive nucleation of social and administrative functions as a linear measure of social complexity. A new perspective is offered here which emphasises the limited extent of urban development in England before the 12th century and the robust nature of non-urban social complexity as a social system. Overall, the applicability of measures of social and administrative complexity drawn from ‘primary’ complex societies is questioned and a plea is made for approaching European post-Roman societies on their own terms rather than by comparison with ancient and classical ones.Less
The complex social and administrative fabric of Anglo-Saxon England existed largely without urban environments. Based upon patterns of naming, this chapter examines relationships between local administrative districts (hundreds) and central places, arguing for the long-term persistence of pre-urban modes of social organisation in Anglo-Saxon England. Following a review of urban development in Anglo-Saxon England, neglected material is brought to bear on long-standing notions of urbanism which emphasise the progressive nucleation of social and administrative functions as a linear measure of social complexity. A new perspective is offered here which emphasises the limited extent of urban development in England before the 12th century and the robust nature of non-urban social complexity as a social system. Overall, the applicability of measures of social and administrative complexity drawn from ‘primary’ complex societies is questioned and a plea is made for approaching European post-Roman societies on their own terms rather than by comparison with ancient and classical ones.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
The 1279–80 hundred rolls are one of the most important but neglected sources for 13th-century English history. This book places the inquiry in its historical context among other inquiries by Edward ...
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The 1279–80 hundred rolls are one of the most important but neglected sources for 13th-century English history. This book places the inquiry in its historical context among other inquiries by Edward I in England, Gascony, the Channel Islands, and Wales, and by other rulers on the Continent. It examines its purpose and whether it was conceived deliberately as a second Domesday Book. The geographical range and chronology of the inquiry are examined, how it was conducted and the way in which the returns were compiled. The book concludes with an assessment of the uses which contemporaries and modern historians have made of the returns. There are appendices providing lists of the manuscripts and printed editions of all known surviving rolls, the commission of inquiry and oath taken by commissioners and the articles of inquiry for Cambridgeshire and London.Less
The 1279–80 hundred rolls are one of the most important but neglected sources for 13th-century English history. This book places the inquiry in its historical context among other inquiries by Edward I in England, Gascony, the Channel Islands, and Wales, and by other rulers on the Continent. It examines its purpose and whether it was conceived deliberately as a second Domesday Book. The geographical range and chronology of the inquiry are examined, how it was conducted and the way in which the returns were compiled. The book concludes with an assessment of the uses which contemporaries and modern historians have made of the returns. There are appendices providing lists of the manuscripts and printed editions of all known surviving rolls, the commission of inquiry and oath taken by commissioners and the articles of inquiry for Cambridgeshire and London.
Philip Waller
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199541201
- eISBN:
- 9780191717284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541201.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter is concerned with who stepped forward to direct the novice reader, beginning with the ‘Best Hundred Books’ phenomenon launched by Sir John Lubbock in 1885. It argues that too much ...
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This chapter is concerned with who stepped forward to direct the novice reader, beginning with the ‘Best Hundred Books’ phenomenon launched by Sir John Lubbock in 1885. It argues that too much emphasis has been given to Victorians' earnestness and that the sheer enjoyment to be gained from book-reading was proclaimed by a variety of enthusiasts. The spirit of the New Journalism was democratic and eclectic. The foremost popular literary magazine to emerge after the turn of the century — targeting women as well as male readers — was T. P.'s Weekly, founded by T. P. O'Connor, and featuring Arnold Bennett as a regular columnist. Similarly influential among Nonconformist readers, by breaking down their antipathy to fiction, was The British Weekly, whose longstanding editor William Robertson Nicoll also founded The Bookman.Less
This chapter is concerned with who stepped forward to direct the novice reader, beginning with the ‘Best Hundred Books’ phenomenon launched by Sir John Lubbock in 1885. It argues that too much emphasis has been given to Victorians' earnestness and that the sheer enjoyment to be gained from book-reading was proclaimed by a variety of enthusiasts. The spirit of the New Journalism was democratic and eclectic. The foremost popular literary magazine to emerge after the turn of the century — targeting women as well as male readers — was T. P.'s Weekly, founded by T. P. O'Connor, and featuring Arnold Bennett as a regular columnist. Similarly influential among Nonconformist readers, by breaking down their antipathy to fiction, was The British Weekly, whose longstanding editor William Robertson Nicoll also founded The Bookman.
Bridget Morris (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195166262
- eISBN:
- 9780199868223
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195166262.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Book IV includes private devotions, meditations, and autobiographical details, with many images drawn from St. Birgitta's own domestic world. Many of the important revelations deal with justice, ...
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Book IV includes private devotions, meditations, and autobiographical details, with many images drawn from St. Birgitta's own domestic world. Many of the important revelations deal with justice, judgment, and the law, and there are graphic depictions of purgatory that later became popular in 15th-century England. There are political messages addressed to individuals, including comments proposing a solution for the Hundred Years' War. There are continued attacks on the lapsed and laxity of the church, and there are concerns about the state of Rome. The last fourteen revelations in Book IV form a separate tract, known as the Tractatus revelacionum beate Birgitte ad sacerdotes ad summos pontifices (Tract of the Revelations of St. Birgitta on the Subject of Priests and Popes), which gathers together comments on individual contemporary popes during their residence in Avignon.Less
Book IV includes private devotions, meditations, and autobiographical details, with many images drawn from St. Birgitta's own domestic world. Many of the important revelations deal with justice, judgment, and the law, and there are graphic depictions of purgatory that later became popular in 15th-century England. There are political messages addressed to individuals, including comments proposing a solution for the Hundred Years' War. There are continued attacks on the lapsed and laxity of the church, and there are concerns about the state of Rome. The last fourteen revelations in Book IV form a separate tract, known as the Tractatus revelacionum beate Birgitte ad sacerdotes ad summos pontifices (Tract of the Revelations of St. Birgitta on the Subject of Priests and Popes), which gathers together comments on individual contemporary popes during their residence in Avignon.
DE STE CROIX
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199255177
- eISBN:
- 9780191719844
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255177.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This essay begins with a discussion of the introduction of majority voting at Athens. It then attempts to prove that Solon's Nomothesia must be dated in the same year as his archonship. The eupatrid ...
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This essay begins with a discussion of the introduction of majority voting at Athens. It then attempts to prove that Solon's Nomothesia must be dated in the same year as his archonship. The eupatrid monopoly of the machinery of state, the Solonian Council of Four Hundred, and ‘sortition from pre-selected candidates’ are discussed.Less
This essay begins with a discussion of the introduction of majority voting at Athens. It then attempts to prove that Solon's Nomothesia must be dated in the same year as his archonship. The eupatrid monopoly of the machinery of state, the Solonian Council of Four Hundred, and ‘sortition from pre-selected candidates’ are discussed.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This introductory chapter explains why the returns of the 1279–80 inquiry are called the hundred rolls and incorporates a map of surviving rolls. It compares them with Domesday Book, asking why they ...
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This introductory chapter explains why the returns of the 1279–80 inquiry are called the hundred rolls and incorporates a map of surviving rolls. It compares them with Domesday Book, asking why they are less well known and sets them in the context of other 13th-century inquiries. Their importance and details of previous editions and studies are given.Less
This introductory chapter explains why the returns of the 1279–80 inquiry are called the hundred rolls and incorporates a map of surviving rolls. It compares them with Domesday Book, asking why they are less well known and sets them in the context of other 13th-century inquiries. Their importance and details of previous editions and studies are given.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This chapter reconstructs the way in which the returns for fifty-six hundreds and thirteen towns represent different stages in the process varying from original returns to final copies together with ...
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This chapter reconstructs the way in which the returns for fifty-six hundreds and thirteen towns represent different stages in the process varying from original returns to final copies together with the chronology of compilation. It discusses the composition of circuits and their importance in relation to constituent counties. It examines the editing, ordering and copying of the returns, together with possible changes in editorial policy as the work was carried out. It also raises the possibility that the inquiry was aborted.Less
This chapter reconstructs the way in which the returns for fifty-six hundreds and thirteen towns represent different stages in the process varying from original returns to final copies together with the chronology of compilation. It discusses the composition of circuits and their importance in relation to constituent counties. It examines the editing, ordering and copying of the returns, together with possible changes in editorial policy as the work was carried out. It also raises the possibility that the inquiry was aborted.
Sandra Raban
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199252879
- eISBN:
- 9780191719264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199252879.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
The first part of this chapter considers whether the returns to the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry were put to any use during the Middle Ages. It examines the significance of annotations, and considers ...
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The first part of this chapter considers whether the returns to the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry were put to any use during the Middle Ages. It examines the significance of annotations, and considers whether or not the returns were used for quo warranto purposes or scutage liability. It raises the possibility that the extent of ecclesiastical holdings revealed in the returns contributed to the enactment of the Statute of Mortmain. The second part of the chapter evaluates the evidence to be found in the rolls and describes the different ways in which modern historians have used them.Less
The first part of this chapter considers whether the returns to the 1279–80 hundred roll inquiry were put to any use during the Middle Ages. It examines the significance of annotations, and considers whether or not the returns were used for quo warranto purposes or scutage liability. It raises the possibility that the extent of ecclesiastical holdings revealed in the returns contributed to the enactment of the Statute of Mortmain. The second part of the chapter evaluates the evidence to be found in the rolls and describes the different ways in which modern historians have used them.
