Medieval Documents by Country - Medieval Documents of Egypt, Medieval Documents of England, Medieval Documents of Wales, Book of Fees (Paperback)

Chapters: Medieval Documents of Egypt, Medieval Documents of England, Medieval Documents of Wales, Book of Fees, Bonedd Gw?r Y Gogledd, Achtiname of Muhammad, Genealogies From Jesus College Ms 20. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Liber feodorum or Book of Fees refers to a book compiled in c. 1302 for the use of the English Exchequer. In two volumes of parchment, it gathers together some 500 written surveys of fiefs or lands held directly of the Crown, as recorded between 1198 and 1292. From an early date, the book has also been informally known as the Testa de Nevill (meaning "Head of Nevill"), after one of its two major source collections. Because the standard edition, whose volumes were published between 1920 and 1931, draws to some extent on the original documents, the title Book of Fees is more often used by modern scholars to refer to a reconstruction of the collections used by the transcriber of the book. In his preface to the latest edition, Sir Henry Maxwell-Lyte argues that the documents transcribed into the Book of Fees stem from two major collections of records. The first originates in the reign of King John (r. 1199-1216) and was known for a time as the Testa de Nevill ("Head of Nevill"). The word testa literally means "earthen container", but was also used metaphorically in the sense of "skull" or "head". Since it had been the custom for officers of the Exchequer to mark certain documentary collections with drawn symbols, such as the heads of important associated figures, Maxwell-Lyte suggests that Testa de Nevill originally referred to some receptacle for keeping a particular group of administrative documents, marked as it may have been by the head of one Nevill. There are too many namesakes to permit identification, but it i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25970299