Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Preface xi
6. Glossary xiii
7. Abbreviations xvi
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Crossing Generations: Dower, Jointure and Courtesy 25
10. 3 The Lesser Landowners and the Inquisitions Post Mortem 47
11. 4 Tales of Idiots, Signifying Something: Evidence of Process in the Inquisitions Post Mortem 79
12. 5 The Value of Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem for Economic and Social History 97
13. 6 ‘Notoriously Unreliable’: The Valuations and Extents 117
14. 7 The Descriptions of Land Found in the Inquisitions Post Mortem and Feet of Fines: A Case Study of Berkshire 145
15. 8 Re-assessing Josiah Russell’s Measurements of Late Medieval Mortality using the Inquisitions Post Mortem 155
16. 9 A Great Historical Enterprise: The Public Record Office and the Making of the Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem 169
17. 10 Writs and the Inquisitions Post Mortem: How the Crown Managed the System 183
18. 11 ‘Thrifty Men of the Country’? The Jurors and Their Role 201
19. 12 Place-Names and Calendaring Practices 223
20. Index 239