第一章
Chapter I opens with an examination of the administrative system developed under Henry I and Bishop Roger of Salisbury, centered on the Curia Regis and Exchequer. The surviving Pipe Roll of 1130 reveals the social condition of the realm through its varied entries.…
The Administrative System and the Pipe Rolls
Henry and Bishop Roger of Salisbury built an elaborate administrative routine that linked all branches of public business and all classes of society to the crown through the Curia…
Financial Administration Under Henry I
The 1130 Pipe Roll reveals that under Henry I and Roger of Salisbury—“the Lion of Justice” and “the Sword of Righteousness”—nearly every contingency of life became a matter of pay…
The English Towns Compared with Continental Cities
English towns differed fundamentally from those of Continental states that arose from the ruins of Rome.…
Origins and Constitution of English Boroughs
The English borough was an unusually large township, often a cluster of coalesced townships with separate parish churches and assemblies, whose general moot resembled a hundred-co…
The Canons of Laon in Southern England
After the cathedral of Laon was burned in a 1112 civic tumult that claimed Bishop Waldric—a former chancellor to Henry I—canons toured northern Gaul and crossed to England seeking…
Winchester: The Old West-Saxon Capital
Winchester, the old West-Saxon capital, had been surpassed in commercial and political importance by London but remained connected to the crown: William the Conqueror built a cast…
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