Supplications from England and Wales in the registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410-1503. Volume II:1464-1492 and III: 1492-1503 and indexes
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 67488838
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- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Supplications from England and Wales in the registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410-1503. Volume II:1464-1492 and III: 1492-1503 and indexes
- Publisher
- Boydell
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This longer-form output comprising volumes II (xvi + 438 pp.) and III (xv + 396 pp.) of a three-volume scholarly edition demonstrates sustained research effort in its collection and editing of 2887 Latin documents scattered through 38 registers (each comprising c. 400-1000 pages). These registers were held in the Vatican Archives and available for study only with permission of the present-day Apostolic Penitentiary, which also had to grant the imprimatur for publication. The initial research was supported by a three-year Leverhulme project grant and makes accessible important new sources for late medieval religious, social and cultural history (about 400,000 words).
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- Additional information
- These two volumes are largely my own work. I was the Research Associate employed full-time on the Leverhulme project (2002-2005) from which these volumes arose. My co-editor was the Principal Investigator, who contributed to the project alongside his full-time job at Cambridge University Library. My contribution was therefore more substantial and included searching thirty-eight registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary for 2887 supplications (petitions) concerning England and Wales. These registers were then held in the Vatican Archives and not available as microfilm or CD-Rom copies. I had to spend up to nine weeks a year over the three years of the project working on the registers in Rome. The supplications were copied into the registers in an abbreviated form of medieval Latin. I had to transcribe the Latin text and extend the abbreviations. If the supplication was brief and formulaic, I had to produce a summary English translation of it, a ‘calendar’, which was what was published in the edition. If the supplication was long and more complex, I had to produce an English summary of its content, which was printed alongside the Latin text. I researched and provided annotation to the calendar and text entries, which identified supplicants (petitioners) and gave biographical details about them from other printed sources. My co-editor spent three weeks in Rome each year of the project, checking my transcriptions against the registers for accuracy. He likewise checked my English calendars and summaries against the Latin transcriptions. He did the final editing of the three volumes of the edition; vol. I including our co-authored introduction was submitted for REF 2014. He also compiled the Indexes of Subjects and Curial Personnel in vol. III (pp. 355-370) and revised the Index of Persons and Places and Chronological Index prepared by Dr Kelcey Wilson-Lee (vol. III, pp. 193-354, 371-396).
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