The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem

MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles. Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009). MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles.

Introduction - Michael Hicks
Crossing Generations: Dower, Jointure and Courtesy - Michael Hicks
The Lesser Landowners and the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Christine Carpenter
Tales of Idiots, Signifying Something: Evidence of Process in the Inquisitions Post Mortem - Kate Parkin
The Value of Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem for Economic and Social History - Christopher Dyer
'Notoriously Unreliable': The Valuations and Extents - Matthew Holford
The Descriptions of Land found in the Inquisitions Post Mortem and Feet of Fines. A Case Study of Berkshire - Margaret Yates
Correcting Josiah Russell's Measurements of Late Medieval Mortality using Inquisitions Post Mortem -
A Great Historical Enterprise: The Public Record Office and the Making of the Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem - Sean Cunningham
Writs and the Inquisitions Post Mortem: How the Crown managed the System - Claire Noble
'Thrifty Men of the Country'? The Jurors and their Role - Matthew Holford
Place-names and Calendaring Practices - Oliver J. Padel