Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings
September 2024
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Dr Peter Linehan
April 2024
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Making History: Boring Books
April 2024
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HISTORY TODAY
Making History: Arguing with the Dead
February 2024
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History Today
Making History: Oracular Spectacular
December 2023
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History Today
Making History: Vlad the Historian
October 2023
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History Today
Mrs Susan Wood
October 2023
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St Hugh's College Chronicle
Making History: Long Live the Ancien Regime!
August 2023
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History Today
England after the Conquest, 1066-1216
July 2023
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The Cambridge Constitutional History of the UK
The Logic of Authority, and the Logic of Evidence
July 2023
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Political Thought, Time, and History
Making History: Does History have a Sell-By Date?
June 2023
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History Today
Law of the Land
July 2022
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History Today
What relevance do the Norman Conquest and the events of 1066 have to contemporary British politics? Everything and nothing.
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Edgar, Dunstan, and the History of Not-So-Recent Events
January 2021
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Lives, Identities, and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
The Norman Conquest in English History Volume I: A Broken Chain?
January 2021
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Book
Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted both an unprecedented campaign in the early twelfth century to write (or create) the history of England, and to ...
Jim Holt: A Very Personal Memoir
April 2020
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Journal article
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Reading Medieval Studies, xlvi (2020)
Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
January 2020
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Did English rulers 'deliberately acquiesce' to foreign rule in 1066?
September 2018
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Journal article
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BBC History Magazine Extra
The Bayeux Tapestry with Knobs On
July 2018
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Journal article
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BBC History Magazine Extra
Scholastic Thought in Humanist Guise. Francois Hotman's Ancient French Constitution
January 2018
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The Medieval World
Sir Edward Coke's Resurrection of Magna Carta
January 2018
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Magna Carta: history, context and influence
Sir James Holt
January 2018
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The New Building
March 2016
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Journal article
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St Hugh's College Magazine
”Dare unchaperoned to gaze”: A Woman’s View of Edwardian Oxford
August 2015
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Edited book
Was 15 June 1215 the true date of Magna Carta?
June 2015
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Journal article
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BBC History Magazine
Magna Carta
May 2015
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Magna Carta
A new edition of J. C. Holt's classic study of Magna Carta, offering the most authoritative analysis of England's most famous constitutional text.
History
Magna Carta through Eight Centuries
May 2015
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Other
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The appeal of precedent: Magna Carta in the early seventeenth century | Extended interlude: Magna Carta between the later middle ages and the seventeenth century | The impact of Sir Edward Coke | Interpretations: tory and whig | The radical and utilitarian challenge | Twentieth-century perspectives
La Francogallia di Francois Hotman: la storia come diritto consuetudinario'
January 2015
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Verità e dissimulazione. L’infinito di Giordano Bruno tra caccia filosofica e riforma religiosa
Why Good Lawyers Make Such Bad Historians: the Case of Sir Edward Coke
January 2015
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Coronation
November 2013
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Chapter
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The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons.
History
John Selden and the Norman Conquest
September 2013
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Book
Robert Curthose: The Duke who Lost His Trousers
July 2013
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Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012
ANGLO—NORMAN STUDIES XXXV PROCEEDINGS OF THE BATTLE CONFERENCE 2012
The articles in this volume have a particular focus on
aspects of the history of the duchy of Normandy. Their topics include arguments for a new...
History
'The Ould Fields': Law and History in the Prefaces to Sir Edward Coke's Reports
January 2013
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Journal article
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Journal of Legal History
Since J.G.A. Pocock's Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law (1957), Coke has been considered ‘the common law mind’ incarnate. The significance which Pocock attributed to Coke's writings accurately reflected their contemporary importance. But because historians shy away from the technicalities of common law, these writings have been caricatured rather than analysed in detail. More has been said about Coke's influence than about what he wrote. This essay focuses on the prefaces to Coke's Reports. It argues that they were intended for a wider, lay readership than the reports themselves, and that they progressively elaborated two themes which were already intrinsic to English law: continuity and immemoriality. Coke's examination of historical evidence to illustrate these themes was not the absurd travesty which it is often presented as, or rather its apparent absurdity was intended to convey a profound legal point. That point had been rendered acutely relevant by the accession of the monarch of another kingdom, who attempted to unify his two kingdoms in ways which threatened English law, and many of whose other innovations were considered to transgress that law. Much use has been made of Coke's library at Holkham Hall.
The Prize Essay
September 2012
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History Review
A Great Admirer of Antiquity
February 2010
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
G. J. Toomer JOHN SELDEN A life in scholarship Two volumes, 1,016pp. Oxford University Press. £120 (US $240).
978 0 19 920703 9 James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, prodigious biblical scholar and “living library”, said in his funeral oration for John Selden that he was “so great a Scholar, that himself was scarce worthy to carry his Books after him”. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, thought Selden’s learning “stupendous”.
The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction
November 2009
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Book
The Norman Conquest in 1066 was one of the most profound turning points in English history, dramatically transforming a disparate collection of small nations ...
History
Riotous
June 2007
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
THE ENGLISH NATIONAL CHARACTER. The history of an idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair. By Peter Mandler. 320pp. Yale University Press. Pounds 19.99 (US
$35) – 978 0 300 12052 3.
Conquered England Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166
January 2007
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Book
Conquered England argues that Duke William of Normandy's claim to succeed Edward the Confessor on the throne of England profoundly influenced not only the practice of royal succession, but also played a large part in creating a novel structure of land tenure, dependent on the king. In these two fundamental respects, the attempt made in the aftermath of the Conquest to demonstrate seamless continuity with Anglo-Saxon England severed almost all continuity. A paradoxical result was a society in which instability in succession at the top exacerbated instability lower down. The first serious attempt to address these problems began when arrangements were made, in 1153, for the succession to King Stephen. Henry II duly succeeded him, but claimed rather to have succeeded his grandfather, Henry I, Stephen's predecessor. Henry II's attempts to demonstrate continuity with his grandfather were modelled on William the Conqueror's treatment of Edward the Confessor. Just as William's fabricated history had been the foundation for the tenurial settlement recorded in the Domesday Book, so Henry II's, in a different way, underpinned the early common law procedures which began to undermine aspects of that settlement. The official history of the Conquest played a crucial role not only in creating a new society, but in the development of that society.
History
Law in the Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos: A Vindication
September 2006
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Journal article
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The Historical Journal
Dr Anne McLaren has disputed the interpretation of the Vindiciae, contra tyrannos (1579) as a work in which Roman and canon law were fundamental. She correctly identifies Quentin Skinner and me with this interpretation. She bases her case on two sorts of evidence: the alleged paucity of Roman law citations, as compared with scriptural ones, in the margins of the original text; and our alleged failure to appreciate the ‘context’ of the Vindiciae, which, she suggests, means how it was translated and used in England, primarily in the seventeenth century. This response argues that she has seriously underestimated the number of legal citations, ignored the use of legal material which is not cited in the margins, and failed to appreciate that Scripture is interpreted in accordance with the categories and principles of Roman and canon law. It further argues that sixteenth-century France, not seventeenth-century England, is the proper ‘context’ in which to understand the book; and that substituting her assessment of English interpretations for what the original says is illegitimate.
Marsilius of Padua and 'the Truth of History'
June 2006
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Book
Marsilius of Padua is conventionally seen as a thinker ahead of his time: the first secular political theorist, and the first post-classical thinker to espouse republicanism. He is presented as a scholastic precursor of the republican humanists of the Renaissance.
Starting with an examination of the neglected evidence for Marsilius's life, and the contemporary response to his best-known work, the Defensor Pacis, this new study argues that such an interpretation is quite wrong. It shows that Marsilius was not a republican, but an imperialist; and that far from being a secular political theorist, his great work Defensor Pacis is underpinned by a profound Christian understanding of history as a providentially ordained process.
History
After the Whigs
May 2006
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
MODERNIZING ENGLAND’S PAST. English historiography in the age of modernism,
1870-1970. By Michael Bentley. 245pp. Cambridge University Press. Paperback, Pounds 17.99 (US $29.99). 0 521 60266 1.
Malebisse [Malebysse], Richard (c. 1155–1209/10), justice
September 2004
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Bainard [Baynard], Fulk (b. in or before 1167, d. in or after 1243), justice and administrator
September 2004
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Internet publication
[...]was the elder son of Fulk Bainard and his wife, Christina. He had succeeded his father by 1189, holding most of his lands as a subtenant of the Bainard honour in Norfolk, Essex, and ...
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Braybrooke [Braybroc], Henry of (d. 1234), sheriff and justice
September 2004
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Internet publication
[...] was the only son of Robert of Braybrooke, who had risen from obscurity late in Richard I's reign to become, under King John, sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland, and who accumulated under-tenancies concentrated in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, ...
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Pattishall [Pateshull], Walter of (d. 1231/2), justice and administrator
September 2004
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Internet publication
[...]was the elder son and heir of Simon of Pattishall (d. c. 1217), an important royal justice under Richard I and John, and of Amice, whose parentage is unknown. He inherited from his father lands in Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and ...
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Ullmann, Walter (1910–1983), historian
September 2004
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Internet publication
[...]was born on 29 November 1910 at 5 Rathausstrasse, Pulkau, Lower Austria, the elder son of Rudolf Ullmann (d. 1932), a country doctor, and his wife, Leopoldine, née Apfelthaler (d. 1949). With the outbreak of war in 1914 both his parents went to serve on the ...
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How the Normans did an English
July 2004
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
THE ENGLISH AND THE NORMANS. Ethnic hostility, assimilation and identity, 1066-c1220. By Hugh M. Thomas. 462pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 65 (US
$99). – 0 19 925123 1
THE HOUSE OF GODWINE. The history of a dynasty. By Emma Mason. 281pp. Hambledon and London. Pounds 25. – 1 85285 289 1
Introduction
September 2003
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Chapter
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A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages
THE PRINCIPAL OBJECT of this book is to show in outline how the papacy as an institution developed in the Middle Ages. In time the book spans the history of the medieval papacy from its small and insignificant beginnings in the late Roman...
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The Third Recension of the English Coronation Ordo: The Manuscripts
July 2003
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Chapter
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The Haskins Society Journal
The eleventh volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Topics include reconsideration of aspects of Charles Homer Haskins' Renaissance of the Twelfth Century seventy years after its publication, as well as studies of the Liber Eliensis, the English coronation ordo, several studies of ecclesiastical politics, and more. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal includes papers read at the 16th Annual Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society in Houston in November 1997 and at other conferences in the year following the Haskins.
Contributors include MARCIA COLISH, JENNIFER PAXTON, H.E.J. COWDREY, GEORGE GARNETT, JOHN FRANCE, PETER BURKHOLDER, BARBARA YORKE, TOM KEEFE, EMILY ALBU, KARL MORRISON.
A wicked businessman
April 2002
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
HENRY I. By C. Warren Hollister, Edited by Amanda Clark Frost. 554pp. Yale University Press. Pounds 25. 0 300 08858 2
Mikhail Bulgakov once observed that “manuscripts don’t burn”. After a lifetime of persecution under Stalin, Bulgakov’s novels were eventually published decades after his death. C. Warren Hollister’s posthumously published Henry I shows that the Soviet writer’s dictum is not always true. Professsor Hollister had been working on his masterpiece for most of his career. But in 1990, his draft and all his notes, along with his house, were consumed in a Californian forest fire.
Coronation
November 2000
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Chapter
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The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
Representing the full breadth of recent scholarly investigation, the volume is the first large-scale work of synthesis and reference in the field since Stenton's Anglo Saxon England (1943) and is likely to become the standard reference on ...
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Conquered England
November 2000
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Chapter
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England
This richly illustrated book provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval England. Written by expert scholars and drawing on the latest research, it offers an authoritative survey of the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
The middle ages were a time of profound diversity and change. The main political themes are explored in three narrative chapters, covering the Anglo-Saxon period, the Normans and Angevins, and the late middle ages. Chapters on the social, cultural, and religious life of the period add context to the political and institutional developments traced and cover topics as varied as the nature of national identity, urban life, art and architecture, religious practice, and the development of vernacular literature.
History
Professor H.C.G. Matthew
October 2000
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Journal article
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St Hugh's College Chronicle
The Origins of the Crown
January 1996
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Journal article
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Proceedings of the British Academy
Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt
April 1994
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Book
The works of Sir James Holt are well known to all those working in medieval history, in Europe, North America and Japan.
History
'Ducal' succession in early Normandy
April 1994
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Chapter
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Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt
The works of Sir James Holt are well known to all those working in medieval history, in Europe, North America and Japan.
History
Brutus: Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos
January 1994
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Book
A complete translation and detailed edition of an influential treatise.
History
Coronation and Propaganda: Some Implications of the Norman Claim to the Throne of England in 1066: The Alexander Prize Essay
January 1986
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Journal article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
WHEN the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (D) s.a. 1066 described the submission ‘out of necessity’ of many of the most important members of the English nobility to duke William at Berkhamstead, which followed extensive ravaging by the invading army, the chronicler lamented the fact that it was only at this stage that the English did so ‘… after most of the damage had been done—and it was a great piece of folly that they had not done it earlier, since God would not make things better, because of our sins…’, implying that the spoliation of the countryside would have ended with a submission and acceptance of the new ruler inflicted as a punishment by God. He continued, ‘And they gave hostages and swore oaths to him, and he promised them that he would be a gracious liege lord to them, and yet in the meantime they ravaged all that they overran.’ The chronicler is clearly shocked by this behaviour on the part of William and his forces, which only seems to end, in his account, with the coronation. Well he might be, for when dates of coronation for English kings in the previous two centuries can be firmly established, they usually occur some considerable time after a constitutive royal accession. Thus, for instance, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan, Æthelred, and Edward the Confessor6 were all crowned in the following years.
Franci et Angli: the legal distinctions between peoples after the Conquest
