Table of Contents

David Smith: the Scholar - Christopher N L Brooke
`The archivist is not and ought not to be a historian.': David Smith and the Borthwick Institute - Christopher C Webb
Why forge episcopal acta? Preliminary observations on the forged characters in the English Episcopal Acta series - Julia Barrow
Pastors and Masters: The Beneficed Clergy of North-East Lincolnshire, 1290-1340 - Nicholas Bennett
The Convent and the Community: cause papers as a source for monastic history - Janet Burton
Patriarchy and Patrimony: investing in the Medieval College - Charles Fonge
`Above all these Charity': the career of Walter Suffield, Bishop of Norwich, 1244-57 - Christopher Harper-Bill
The Law of Charity and the English Ecclesiastical Courts - R.H. Helmholz
Continuing service: the episcopal households of thirteenth- century Durham - Philippa M. Hoskin
The acta of English rural deans in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries - B R Kemp
The Court of Arches and the Bishop of Salisbury - F. Donald Logan
Bishops' Registers and Political History: a neglected resource -
The Vatican Archives, the Papal Registers and Great Britain and Ireland: the foundations of historical research - Jane Sayers

About the Author

Charles Fonge is the University Archivist for the University of Warwick F. DONALD LOGAN is Professor Emeritus of History at Emmanuel College, Boston, and Honorary Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history.

Reviews

A valuable contribution to the subject.
*HISTORY*

A very fine collection, with many gems.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*

All in all, a fitting tribute to the distinguished honorand.
*NORTHERN HISTORY*

An illuminating collection of essays.
*ARCHIVES*

A distinguished collection of essays.
*EHR*

Thirteen essays of uniformly high quality.
*SOUTHERN HISTORY*