The Essex Society for Archaeology and History has received details of the programme for the Conference this Saturday. We will be there with our book stall.
ESSEX THROUGH THE AGES
Tracing the past using manorial
documents
Essex Record Office | 12 July
2014
In association with the
Manorial Documents Register
With Support from East of
England Regional Archive Council and the Friends of Historic Essex
A one-day conference on tracing
the past using manorial documents
Essex Record Office, Wharf
Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6YT
10.30 Registration, tea and
coffee
10.50 Manors and Manorial
Documents. What are they?
Prof Nigel Saul
11.50 The national Manorial
Documents Register project
Liz Hart
12.30 Lunch
Including an opportunity to
visit a display in the Searchroom of manorial documents from the ERO’s
collections
1.30 Highlights from Essex
manorial documents
Katharine Schofield
2.10 An Essex Case Study:
Stebbing and its Late-Medieval and Tudor Manorial Documentation
Prof L.R. Poos
2.55 Unlocking Stebbing’s
History from its Manorial Documentation
Graham Jolliffe
3.10 Questions for Prof Poos
and Graham Jolliffe
3.25 Close
Find details of other Essex
Record Office talks and workshops at www.essex.gov.uk/EROevents
A little about our speakers
Nigel Saul is Professor of
Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a member of the
national Manorial Documents Committee. He is the author of Richard II (Yale
University Press, 1997) and For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066-1500
(Bodley Head, 2011). In 2012 he was historical consultant to the BBC4 series on
the Hundred Years War, Chivalry and Betrayal. He has worked extensively on
manorial sources in his studies of English medieval local society.
Liz Hart has worked at The
National Archives (TNA) for 9 years. She is a Senior Adviser (Manorial) in the
Private Archives team in Archives Sector Development. She has responsibility
for the maintenance of the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) and its
development, including the supervision of the county-by-county programme of
projects to update and computerise sections of the Register. Previously, she
worked for 12 years at the National Monuments Record, the public archive of
English Heritage, working with architectural collections (written, drawn and photographic
material).
Katharine Schofield read
History at Cambridge and undertook her archival qualification at University
College, London. She has worked at the Essex Record Office for 25 years and for
the last three years she has been the Essex Manorial Document Register Liaison
Officer. Katharine’s main areas of interest are Essex in the Little Domesday
Book and the medieval history of the county. She is the joint author of Essex
Illustrated (Chelmsford, 1997) and recently authored ‘The Medieval Deeds of
Colchester Hall, Takeley’, Essex Journal, II (47), 2012, as well as being a
regular contributor to the ERO blog and e-newsletter.
L.R. Poos is Professor of
History and Dean of Arts and Sciences at The Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. His Cambridge Ph.D. dissertation studied the Essex manors of Great
Waltham and High Easter in the fourteenth century and he continued his Essex
research in A rural society after the Black Death: Essex 1350-1525 (1991). His
other books include Select cases in manorial courts 1250-1550: Property and
family law (with Lloyd Bonfield, Selden Society, 1998), and Lower
ecclesiastical jurisdiction in late medieval England: The courts of the Dean
and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336-1349, and the Deanery of Wisbech, 1458-1484
(Oxford, 2001). Among his current projects is a critical edition and
translation of manorial and parish records from Stebbing, in conjunction with
which he is collaborating with Graham Jolliffe of the Stebbing Local History Society
to map the local landscape.
Graham Jolliffe is the
co-founder and Chairman of the Stebbing Local History Society which was established
in 1995. He has done a considerable amount of original research on Stebbing
which has been distributed through the society’s own publications. Prior to
that he has many years’ experience of history research in Hertfordshire
including the co-authorship of Hertfordshire Inns and Public Houses: an
Historical Gazetteer. He is currently working closely with Professor Poos to
interpret and map the manorial documentary evidence for Stebbing.
More about manors…
See our blog for lots of useful
background on manorial documents and how you can use them in your research:
www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk
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Record Office
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The information contained in
this document can be translated, and/or made available in alternative formats,
on request. Published June 2014
DS14 4580
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