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Paul Dryburgh and
Beth Hartland (Eds.)
Series editor: David Carpenter
 One
of the chief treasures of the National Archives is the great
series of rolls on which the English royal Chancery recorded its
business, a unique resource for historians without parallel in
the rest of Europe.
Recording
offers of money to the king for all manner of concessions and
favours, the Fine Rolls are central to the study of political,
governmental, legal, social and economic history. This series
aims to publish the fine rolls of the reign of Henry III
(1216-1272). Despite the light they shed on politics,
government, and society, they have never previously been
properly edited or published, and these fully-indexed volumes -
covering the period up to 1248 - will therefore be widely
welcomed. The Latin rolls are presented in English translation
in this print version, with all identifiable place-names
modernised; and each volume includes full person, place and
subject indexes.
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Volume I:
1216-1224
616pp, 23.4 x 15.6 cms, September 2007
978 1 84383 337 6, Cloth
This first volume includes an introduction by David Carpenter to
the series as a whole and also to developments in the rolls
between 1216 and 1234. The period covered here was as dramatic
as it was important, witnessing the accession of Henry III at
the age of nine in October 1216, the winning of the civil war
left by his father King John, the slow re-building of royal
authority shattered by hostilities, the rebellion of Falkes de
Bréauté in 1224, and the acceptance by the minority government
of what John had rejected, namely Magna Carta.
Volume II:
1224-1234
ca. 616pp, 23.4 x 15.6 cms, May 2008
978 1 84383 358 1, Cloth
This second volume covers as important and dramatic a period of
English history as the first. The years between 1224 and 1234
witnessed the issue of the final and definitive version of Magna
Carta, the ending of the king's minority, his French campaign of
1230, the fall of the justiciar, Hubert de Burgh in 1232, the
subsequent regime of Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, the
civil war which followed his apparent defiance of Magna Carta,
and finally in 1234 the restoration of lawful consensual rule.
Volumes III and IV covering the years 1234-1248 will follow in
2009-2010. |
