Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm

NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding. Mark Hagger is a reader in medieval history at Bangor University. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

Introduction: The Record of 1204 - Nicholas Vincent
'In Testimonium Factorum Brevium': The Beginnings of the English Chancery Rolls - David Carpenter
The Earliest Exchequer Estreat and the Forest Eyres of Henry II and Thomas Fitz Bernard, 1175-1180 - David Crook
Theory and Practice in the Making of Twelfth-Century Pipe Rolls - Mark Hagger
Between Three Realms: The Acts of Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Worcester - David Crouch
Archbishop Geoffrey of York: A Problem in Anglo-French Maternity - Marie B Lovatt
Hugh de Gundeville [fl.1147-1181] - Nicholas Vincent
Guérin de Glapion, Seneschal of Normandy [1200-1]: Service and Ambition under the Plantagenet and Capetian Kings - Daniel Power