The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem

A Companion
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84383-712-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Essays offering a guide to a vital source for our knowledge of medieval England.

The Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) at the National Archives have been described as the single most important source for the study of landed society in later medieval England. Inquisitions were local enquiries into the lands heldby people of some status, in order to discover whatever income and rights were due to the crown on their death, and provide details both of the lands themselves and whoever held them. This book explores in detail for the first time the potential of IPMs as sources for economic, social and political history over the long fifteenth century, the period covered by this Companion. It looks at how they were made, how they were used, and their "accuracy",and develops our understanding of a source that is too often taken for granted; it answers questions such as what they sought to do, how they were compiled, and how reliable they are, while also exploring how they can best be usedfor economic, demographic, place-name, estate and other kinds of study.

Michael Hicks is Professor of Medieval History, University of Winchester.

Contributors: Michael Hicks, Christine Carpenter, Kate Parkin, Christopher Dyer, Matthew Holford, Margaret Yates, L.R. Poos, J. Oeppen, R.M. Smith, Sean Cunningham, Claire Noble, Matthew Holford, Oliver Padel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hicks, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carpenter, Christine

Dyer, Christopher

Noble, Claire

Parkin, Kate

Yates, Margaret

Holford, Matthew

Hicks, Michael

Padel, Oliver

Cunningham, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Michael Hicks
Crossing Generations: Dower, Jointure and Courtesy - Michael Hicks
The Lesser Landowners and the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Christine Carpenter
Tales of Idiots, Signifying Something: Evidence of Process in the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Kate Parkin
The Value of Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem for Economic and Social History - Christopher Dyer
'Notoriously Unreliable': The Valuations and Extents - Matthew Holford
The Descriptions of Land found in the Inquisitions Post Mortem and Feet of Fines. A Case Study of Berkshire - Margaret Yates
Correcting Josiah Russell's Measurements of Late Medieval Mortality using Inquisitions Post Mortem -
A Great Historical Enterprise: The Public Record Office and the Making of the Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem - Sean Cunningham
Writs and the Inquisitions Post Mortem: How the Crown managed the System - Claire Noble
'Thrifty Men of the Country'? The Jurors and their Role - Matthew Holford
Place-names and Calendaring Practices - Oliver J. Padel

Über Autor(innen)

Hicks, Michael
MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles.

Dyer, Christopher
Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009).

Hicks, Michael
MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles.

Michael Hicks is Professor of Medieval History, University of Winchester.