English Episcopal Acta, Volume 41: Norwich 1289-1299Christopher Harper-Bill, David Michael Smith These volumes are part of the English Episcopal Acta project, designed to edit all documents issued by bishops in England from the Norman Conquest to the advent of Episcopal registers in each individual diocese. These two volumes complete the work for the diocese of Norwich, which included the most heavily populated and richest region of medieval England and contained a very large number of religious houses. The present volumes contain 375 episcopal charters and letters (in addition to 830 published in the previous Norwich volumes). A substantial introduction contains short biographies of the three bishops and details of their household, and a discussion of the very varied subject-matter and the diplomatic formulae of the acta. A series of appendices contain, inter alia, earlier acta recently located, references to acta now lost and to the use of the Episcopal seal, and itineraries of the bishops. Along with other volumes in this series, this collection both illustrates the changing mechanisms of church government in the 12th and 13th centuries, and provides a view of English church and society, from relations with the crown through the regulation of religious houses, to parochial organisation, unattainable before the systematic collection of such documents. |
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LIST OF PLATES | 198 |
PRINTED BOOKS AND ARTICLES CITED WITH xvi | 204 |
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS xxvi | 214 |
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acta actum addressed to Edward Alderford anno Domini Appx apud archbishop archbp archdn auctoritate Bacton bishop bishop of Norwich Bury St Edmunds canons Canterbury cartulary cathedral priory CCmo nonagesimo chaplain church clerk cuius rei testimonium curia regis diocese domino domino Hibern duci Aquit eadem ecclesia Dei ecclesie Edwardo Dei gratia eiusdem England Notification addressed episcopus salutem Excellentissimo principi filiis Gascony gratia regi Angl habeat ultra quid Hoxne Iohannes John kalendas king's gift London Lynn mandate monks Nicholas nobis Norfolk R.O. Norwicensis ecclesie minister Norwicensis episcopus Norwich Cathedral Norwich Cathedral Charters Pecham permissione divina Norwicensis pope Nicholas IV predicti Presentation principes dominantur quatinus quod Radulphus permissione divina Ralph rector reges regnant regnant et principes Robert Roger royal sancte matris ecclesie seal sigillum nostrum South Elmham Sparham successoribus successors super Thomas Thorpe tithe ultra quid faciat valeat vestra vestram regiam rogamus vicar William Winchelsey