Title:
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REGISTRUM PALATINUM DUNELMENSE 4 VOLUME SET
THE REGISTER OF RICHARD DE KELLAWE, LORD PALATINE AND BISHOP OF DURHAM, 1311-1316 |
By: |
Thomas Duffus Hardy (Editor) |
Format: |
Multiple copy pack |
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£194.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1108049184 |
ISBN 13: |
9781108049184 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
15 November, 2012 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls |
Pages: |
3332 |
Description: |
This earliest surviving episcopal Register from Durham (1311-16) is an important source on the history of Northern England. |
Synopsis: |
This Latin Register of Richard Kellaw, Bishop of Durham (d.1316), is the earliest to survive for this important diocese, where the bishop held quasi-royal authority within his palatinate. He was an active bishop, and the Register, covering the years 1311-16, includes information about ordinations, indulgences, loans, grants and licences to study, as well as about Kellaw's secular administration of his diocese. During his five-year episcopate, he also had to deal with constant trouble from the Scots under Robert Bruce. This four-volume work, published as part of the Rolls Series between 1873 and 1878, was edited by the historian Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-78). It is an important source on the civil and ecclesiastical history of the North of England in the early fourteenth century. |
Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |