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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1617: Editing Medieval Records: History, Challenges, and Approaches

Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Pipe Roll Society
Organiser:Sophie Ambler, Independent Scholar, London
Moderator/Chair:Paul R. Dryburgh, The National Archives, Kew
Paper 1617-aMabel Mills, Pioneer of the Exchequer Records
(Language: English)
Richard Cassidy, Independent Scholar, London
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Women's Studies
Paper 1617-bEditing the 11th- to 13th-Century Monastic Rolls: Cartularies Preserved in France - Ambitions and Requirements of a Multimodal Edition (ROTULUS ANR JCJC Project)
(Language: English)
Élodie Papin, Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire, Université de Lorraine
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The Pipe Roll Society, founded at the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) in 1883, is dedicated to publishing editions of the pipe rolls of the Exchequer and of other related medieval documents, from cartularies to household rolls, from the period c.1100 to 1350. It's most recent publication is The Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Pembroke and Leicester, edited and translated by Louise J. Wilkinson (2020). Sponsored by the Society, this session considers the history and future of editing medieval records and the challenges involved, from the career of Mabel Mills, a pioneer of research into the records of the English Exchequer in the 1920s, to a new project editing the records of monastic cartularies from France, and approaches to print and digital editions.