IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 507: Politics, Warfare, and Wine: The Gascon Rolls Project, 1317-1468

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	School of History, University of Liverpool
Organiser:	Simon J. Harris, Gascon Rolls Project, School of History, University of Liverpool
Moderator/Chair:	Paul H. W. Booth, Gascon Rolls Project, School of History, University of Liverpool
Paper 507-a	The Gascon Rolls: Unfinished Business and Renewal of Interest (Language: English) Malcolm Vale, Gascon Rolls Project, St John's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 507-b	Constructing a Collaborative Digital Framework to Edit and Publish the Gascon Rolls (Language: English) Paul Spence, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 507-c	Ramon Durand: The Exceptional Career of an Official Revealed by the Gascon Rolls (Language: English) Guilhem Pépin, Gascon Rolls Project, University of Oxford Index terms: Administration, Computing in Medieval Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	In 1152 the future Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine and brought the duchy of Aquitaine into the possession of the Plantagenet kings of England. It remained in English hands until 1453. However, the records of the English chancery recording the duchy's government – the Gascon Rolls (TNA C 61) – have remained unavailable in published form from 1317 onwards, and are the last major set of unpublished medieval Chancery rolls. The AHRC Gascon Rolls project has been established to remedy this, and the session will deal with the project, its methodology, the online resource, and its research potential.