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A Reader of Medieval Laws, Edicts & Orders from the 5th to the 14th Centuries

Ernest Flagg Henderson, Angela Hoescht (Editor)

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E.F. Henderson’s Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages, under which title these texts were published in 1892, was a unique collection of important medieval legal documents, and worthy of a reprinting. Not only did Henderson’s edition carry the translation of one of the Middle Ages’ most unique fiduciary texts, the Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer (Dialogus de Scaccario) of Richard FitzNeal, Henry II’s High Treasurer, but also contains one of the best series of translated documents concerning the Investiture Controversy in the High Middle Ages; an invaluable introduction to that debate for any English reading student of the period. This edition has corrected the original’s several errors, modernized some of its spelling and grammar for modern readers, improved several translations in sense and grammar, and reordered some of the texts. This edition also includes QR Codes to relevant online information which can be accessed by pointing a QR Reader from your mobile device.Henderson, Ernest, F. A Reader of Medieval Laws, Edicts & Orders From the 5th to the 14th Centuries. Washington Madison and Monroe, 2013. Rpt. of Henderson, E.F. Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages. 1892.

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Published December 12, 2015