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The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages Materiale Textkulturen The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages Materiale Textkulturen Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 933 Herausgegeben von Ludger Lieb Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Jan Christian Gertz, Markus Hilgert, Hanna Liss, Bernd Schneidmüller, Melanie Trede und Christian Witschel Band 28 The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages Form and Content Edited by Stefan G. Holz, Jörg Peltzer and Maree Shirota ISBN 978-3-11-064483-8 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-064512-5 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-064520-0 ISSN 2198-6932 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019949158 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Stefan G. Holz, Jörg Peltzer, Maree Shirota, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/ Boston This book is published in open access at www.degruyter.com. Cover Image: Box of late thirteenth and early fourteenth century jornalia rolls. Kew, TNA, E 405/1/1– 56. By permission of The National Archives Kew. Photo by Paul Dryburgh. Typesetting: Sonderforschungsbereich 933 (Nicolai Schmitt), Heidelberg Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Preface This volume results from the conference The Roll in Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages, held at Heidelberg, 28–29 September 2017, organised by sub-project B10 ‘Rolls for the King: The Format of Rolls in Royal Administration and Historiography in the Late Middle Ages in Western Europe’ of the CRC 933 ‘Material Text Cultures’ at Hei- delberg University. We would like to thank all scholars who responded positively to our call for papers for the conference and thus made the event possible. Anuschka Holste-Massoth (Heidelberg), Annette Kehnel (Mannheim), Norbert Kössinger (Kon- stanz), Klaus Oschema (Bochum), Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg), and Jean- Marie Moeglin (Paris) chaired the individual sessions. Jean-Marie Moeglin also kindly agreed to give the concluding remarks. We are very grateful for their input and sup- port. Thanks are also due to the ‘Heidelberg Center for American Studies’ for hosting the conference, to Harmony Dewez (Poitiers) for having proofread the French texts and to the students Paul Blicke, Katharina Hötzsch, Robert Janson, and Laura Puin who contributed to a smoothly organised conference and preparing its proceedings for publication. Finally, we thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for having financed the conference and the publication of this volume within the framework of the CRC 933 and its MTK series. As a general rule, lower case has been used for medieval institutions throughout the volume in both English and French texts. Abbreviations are used individually by the authors and are indicated in the footnotes or the references. Heidelberg, 31 January 2019 Stefan G. Holz, Jörg Peltzer and Maree Shirota Open Access. © 2019 Stefan G. Holz, Jörg Peltzer and Maree Shirota, published by De Gruy ter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110645125-202 Contents Preface V List of Figures IX List of Tables XI Jörg Peltzer The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages: Introductory Remarks 1 Thomas Roche Des rouleaux « ordinaires » ? Panorama des rôles conservés aux Archives départementales de l’Eure 21 Lucie Tryoen Laloum Le rouleau dans les procédures judiciaires au chapitre de Notre-Dame de Paris au XIIIe siècle 53 Marlène Helias-Baron Une déclaration des biens de Notre-Dame du Val (1362). Exigences fiscales, reconstruction seigneuriale et pratiques documentaires 77 Nicholas Vincent Enrolment in Medieval English Government: Sickness or Cure? 103 Richard Cassidy The Rolls Behind the Rolls: The English Pipe Rolls and Their Preliminary Documents 147 Stefan G. Holz The Onus Scaccarii Rolls Under Edward I (1272–1307) 167 Élodie Papin Les cartulaires-rouleaux de l’abbaye de Margam. Matérialité et fonctions des rouleaux cisterciens au pays de Galles au XIIIe siècle 197 Marigold Anne Norbye Roll or Codex for ‘A tous nobles’? The Physical Expressions of a French Genealogical Chronicle 217 VIII Contents Maree Shirota Neither Roll nor Codex: Accordion Genealogies of the Kings of England from the Fifteenth Century 263 Katherine Storm Hindley The Power of Not Reading: Amulet Rolls in Medieval England 289 Jean-Marie Moeglin Conclusion 307 Notes on Contributors 315 Index 317 List of Figures Thomas Roche Des rouleaux « ordinaires » ? Panorama des rôles conservés aux Archives départementales de l’Eure Fig. 1 Distribution chronologique des rouleaux et rôlets. Photo: Thomas Roche 44 Fig. 2 Évolution des ratios des dimensions par forme. Photo: Thomas Roche 44 Fig. 3 Ratio longueur/largeur. Photo: Thomas Roche 45 Fig. 4 Format des typologies documentaires. Photo: Thomas Roche 45 Fig. 5 Mise en page des typologies documentaires. Photo: Thomas Roche 46 Fig. 6 Forme des typologies documentaires. Photo: Thomas Roche 46 Fig. 7 Évolution du ratio longueur/largeur des rôles de fouage. Photo: Thomas Roche 47 Fig. 8 Évolution du ratio longueur/largeur des rôles de montre et contrôle. Photo: Thomas Roche 47 Lucie Tryoen Laloum Le rouleau dans les procédures judiciaires au chapitre de Notre-Dame de Paris au XIIIe siècle Fig. 1 Succession des étapes d’un procès avec mention des rouleaux correspondants. Illustration d’après la description de Yves Mausen (2006), Veritatis adiutor : la procédure du témoignage dans le droit savant et la pratique française (XIIe–XIV e siècles) (Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto di Storia del Diritto Medievale e Moderno 35), Milano; realisée par Lucie Tryoen Laloum 56 Fig. 2 Liste des témoins du seigneur Amaury copié au verso du rouleau S254 n° 11. Avec la permis- sion des Archives nationales Paris 63 Fig. 3 Liste des témoins jurés produits par Saint-Martin-des-Champs et par le prieuré de Deuil-la- Barre copiée au verso du rouleau S195B n° 47. Avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 63 Fig. 4 Passage de la deuxième à la troisième peau de parchemin du rouleau S254 n° 12. Avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 67 Fig. 5 Rapport entre l’écriture de deux dépositions au verso d’une peau de parchemin et la cou- ture. Avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 68 Fig. 6 Esthétique de la couture (S345A n° 41). Avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 68 Marlène Helias-Baron Une déclaration des biens de Notre-Dame du Val (1362). Exigences fiscales, reconstruction seigneuriale et pratiques documentaires Fig. 1 Les possessions de l’abbaye de Notre-Dame du Val localisées dans les diocèses de Paris, de Rouen de Beauvais et de Senlis (d’après la déclaration de 1362). Photo: Marlène Helias- Baron 78 Fig. 2 Ecriture de la déclaration des biens de 1362. (Paris, Archives nationales, S 4169, nº 15, fol. 1). Cliché des Archives nationales Paris, avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 84 Fig. 3 Acte dressé au nom de Gilles de Nédonchel, gouverneur de Clermont, en 1372. (Paris, Archives nationales, P 1362-2). Cliché personnel, avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 85 Fig. 4 Répartition par le duc de Bourbon d’une rente en faveur de son fils, s.d. (Paris, Archives nationales, P 1362-2). Cliché personnel, avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 85 Open Access. © 2019 Stefan G. Holz, Jörg Peltzer and Maree Shirota, published by De Gruy ter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110645125-204 X List of Figures Fig. 5 Analyse paléographique de la déclaration de 1362 : une cursiva currens proche de la « mixte » de la chancellerie royale française. Arrangements: Marlène Helias-Baron. Photos: Clichés personnel, avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris. 98 Fig. 6 Les mentions dorsales de la déclaration des biens du Val Notre-Dame. Clichés personnels, avec la permission des Archives nationales Paris 99 Nicholas Vincent Enrolment in Medieval English Government: Sickness or Cure? Fig. 1 Madox’ woodcut illustration of the Pipe Office at Westminster. Photo: Madox, Thomas (17111), The History and Antiquites of the Exchequer of the Kings of England, 2 vols., London, 63 108 Fig. 2 Display in the Public Record Office Museum, c.1910. By permission of The National Archives Kew 108 Fig. 3 Whaddon Hall drawing of the court of chancery. By permission of The Masters of the Bench of the Inner Temple 110 Fig. 4 Pipe roll docquets 1832. By permission of The National Archives Kew 117 Fig. 5 Endorsements to the returns of 1166. By permission of The National Archives Kew 119 Fig. 6 A selection of the rolls used for the Book of Fees. By permission of The National Archives Kew 121 Fig. 7 Luca della Robbia cantorie, Florence. Photo: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) 125 Fig. 8 Unrolled chancery roll. By permission of The National Archives Kew 127 Marigold Anne Norbye Roll or Codex for ‘A tous nobles’? The Physical Expressions of a French Genealogical Chronicle Fig. 1 Paris, BnF, MS nouv. acq. fr. 1493, fol. 14, version H. By permission of the Bibliothèque nati- onale de France 218 Fig. 2 Paris, BnF, MS nouv. acq. fr. 1494, fol. 16, version H. By permission of the Bibliothèque nationale de France 219 Fig. 3 Princeton, University Library, Princeton MS 56, near the very top of the roll, version P. Cour- tesy of Princeton University Library 227 Fig. 4 Paris, BnF, MS fr. 6470, in the latter part of the roll, version R. By permission of the Biblio- thèque nationale de France 235 Fig.
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