Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity Caen

ISBN-13: 9780197260098 / Angielski

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Opis

Contains surveys for the whole estate made in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, 13th-century custumals for Minchinhampton, Avening, and Felsted, and 26 charters and leases, some of which relate to property in London. The surveys provide evidence of social conditions and changing methods of estate exploitation.

Recenzje

a well-planned and executed edition, and makes a major contribution to the study of the economic organisation of Benedictine abbeys in the post-Conquest era