The Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189 : Volume II
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
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- 186006027
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- A - Authored book
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- Oxford University Press
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- 9780198208372
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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0
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- The largest corpus of charter materials (letters and title deeds) preserved for any twelfth-century king, the 4640 documents issued in the name of King Henry II not only outnumber those preserved for the kings of France and Germany combined, but demonstrate the extent to which Henry II of England towered over his contemporaries and rivals. The outcome of more than 30 years of work, these volumes have been collected and edited by Vincent from manuscript sources (and one stone monument) in 286 repositories, of which 160 are in England or Wales, 86 in France, and the remaining 40 in other European countries, Canada, or the USA. The largest such body of materials assembled for any ruler, eastern or western, European or otherwise, since the fall of the Roman Empire, they have been meticulously transcribed, collated, indexed and contextualized. Collectively, it transforms our understanding not only of the court of Henry II, but of medieval government and society more generally. Ruler of the largest collection of lands assembled in the west since the fall of the empire of Charlemagne, Henry II was also a patron of literature and intellectuals. At the same time, he was notorious both as an unfaithful husband to his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and as the reputed author of the murder of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury. The new collection of materials, many of them previously unknown or unpublished, reveal both of the extent of Henry’s grip on power, in England, France and Ireland, and his more personal relations, not only with Becket but with a wider circle of courtiers. The volumes contain a thorough analysis of the palaeography as well as the diplomatic sources, an itinerary of Henry II and indexes of person and places and subjects. Volume II contains Beneficiaries D–H, nos. 741–134.
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