Why Forge Episcopal Acta? Preliminary Observations on the Forged Charters in the English Episcopal Acta series

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. David Smith: the Scholar 1
7. ‘The archivist is not and ought not to be a historian.’ David Smith and the Borthwick Institute 9
8. Why Forge Episcopal Acta? Preliminary Observations on the Forged Charters in the English Episcopal Acta series 18
9. Pastors and Masters: The Beneficed Clergy of North-East Lincolnshire, 1290–1340 40
10. The Convent and the Community: Cause Papers as a Source for Monastic History 63
11. Patriarchy and Patrimony: Investing in the Medieval College 77
12. ‘Above all these Charity’: the Career of Walter Suffield, Bishop of Norwich, 1244–57 94
13. The Law of Charity and the English Ecclesiastical Courts 111
14. Continuing Service: the Episcopal Households of Thirteenth-Century Durham 124
15. The Acta of English Rural Deans in the Later Twelfth and early Thirteenth Centuries 139
16. The Court of Arches and the Bishop of Salisbury 159
17. Bishops’ Registers and Political History: a Neglected Resource 173
18. The Vatican Archives, the Papal Registers and Great Britain and Ireland: the Foundations of Historical Research 194
19. Bibliography of the Writings of David Smith 211
20. Index 217
21. Tabula Gratulatoria 236