The Foundations of Medieval English Ecclesiastical History: Studies Presented to David SmithPhilippa M. Hoskin, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke, Richard Barrie Dobson Contributions on fundamental aspects of medieval ecclesiastical history, demonstrating the importance of primary documents. The work of historians in providing new editions of primary documents, and other aids to research, has tended to go largely unsung, yet is crucial to scholarship, as providing the very foundations on which further enquiry can be based. The essays in this volume, conversely, celebrate the achievements in this field by a whole generation of medievalists, of whom the honoree, David Smith, is one of the most distinguished. They demonstrate the importance of such editions to a proper understanding and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century forgery to diocesan administration, from the church courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish clergy to the papacy. Contributors: CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, C.C. WEBB, JULIA BARROW, NICHOLAS BENNETT, JANET BURTON, CHARLES FONGE, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, R.H. HELMHOLZ, PHILIPPA HOSKIN, BRIAN KEMP, F. DONALD LOGAN, ALISON MCHARDY |
Contents
the Scholar | 1 |
The archivist is not and ought not to be a historian | 9 |
Why Forge Episcopal Acta? Preliminary Observations on the Forged | 18 |
the Beneficed Clergy of NorthEast Lincolnshire | 40 |
Cause Papers as a Source for | 63 |
Investing in the Medieval College | 77 |
the Career of Walter Suffield Bishop | 94 |
The Law of Charity and the English Ecclesiastical Courts | 111 |
the Episcopal Households of ThirteenthCentury | 124 |
The Acta of English Rural Deans in the later Twelfth and early | 139 |
The Court of Arches and the Bishop of Salisbury | 159 |
a Neglected Resource | 173 |
The Vatican Archives the Papal Registers and Great Britain and | 194 |
Bibliography of the Writings of David Smith | 211 |
Tabula Gratulatoria 236 | |