Ruling fourteenth century England : essays in honour of Christopher Given-Wilson
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 67492863
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Boydell Press
- ISBN
- 9781783274352
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 140,000 word-long festschrift dedicated to Professor Chris Given-Wilson avoids the pitfall of this genre of literature, characterised by a lack of coherence. A substantial introduction followed by twelve contributions are all tightly focused on the government of fourteenth century England. The conceptualisation and conception of this volume result from a collaborative effort shared between the three editors. My personal involvement can be divided into three areas. Firstly, I co-authored a 17,000 word-long contribution on surrender together with Gwilym Dodd. I invited Gwilym, an expert in fourteenth century political culture, to work with me on a very rare case of an impeachment of war captains. I wrote a 10,000 word long draft on the legal approach to the topic, which was merged with Gwilym’s political perspective. It is only fair to say that the workload was shared equally between the two of us. However, I wish to note that my work on this chapter is based on archival research at the TNA, and directly engages with unpublished material. This has helped me to give a deep, rare and original insight into the moral and legal obligations of these war captains. Secondly, I co-authored a hefty introduction, for which I wrote a section on administrative efficiency which represents 20% (1,800 words) of the total amount of words (9,800). This introduction invites the reader to question the nature and scope of the government of fourteenth century England. The twelve chapters address this question from a wide variety of angles (i.e. administrative, legal, cultural, biographic/prosopographical, and of course, political), providing cutting-edge knowledge, and feeding the discussion with new reflections very often based on original research. Thirdly, as part of the editorial team, I edited a third of the contributions, proofread the whole volume (together with my colleagues), and compiled half the index.
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