Medieval panorama : the English scene from conquest to Reformation / by G.G. Coulton.

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1947
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    CHAPTER XXVI (pp. 317-330) (1) Life of St Godric (S.S. 1847). (2) R. Beazley, Dawn of Med. Geography, 11. 460. (3) Eileen Power and M. M. Postan, English Trade in the Fifteenth Century (1933). (4) Social Life, 427. (5) Ibid. 420. (6) Ibid. 422. (7) Froissart (Globe ed.), 83. (8) For full text see Social Life, 427 ff. CHAPTER XXVII (pp. 331-345) (1) Much of this chapter is transcribed from a paper which I read before the Historical Association at Cambridge in 1921, and which evoked no contradiction of fact. It was printed in History for July of that year. (2) History (July 1921), 63. (3) Summa Theol. 2% 2a% Lxxvn. 4. (4) On this point there is an extraordinary misstatement in Dr G. O’Brien’s essay on Medieval Economic Teaching (p. 122). He writes: “In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there is little to be found [in the theorists] bearing on the subject [of the Fair Price].... The reason for this paucity of authority upon a subject of so much importance is that.. .the proper remuneration of labour was so universally recognised as a duty, and so satisfactorily enforced, that it seems to have been taken for granted, and therefore passed over, by the writers of the period.” It would be difficult to find a plainer instance of the danger of studying theory alone (for Dr O’Brien frankly confesses that limitation in his preface) and of deducing from such one¬ sided evidence all sorts of wider inferences as to actual practice. (5) Crump and Jacob, Legacy of the M.A. 343 (by Prof. Gabriel le Bras, Strasbourg). (6) Chron. Major (R.S.), v. 465 (a.d. 1253). (7) Ibid. ill. 188-9. (8) Oxenedes, Chron. (R.S.), 168, 197. (9) Social Lifey 345. (10) Chaucer and his England, 194. (11) Comentum (ed. Lacaita), I. 579; Social Lifey 342. (12) Cal. Early Chancery Proc. II (1903), 109. (13) Role des monasteres comme etablissemen ts de credit (1901), 56—69. CHAPTER XXVIII (pp. 346-355) (1) Jewish Encyclopaedia, v. i6iff. (2) Hist. Eng. Law (1895), I. 451. (3) Jew. Encyc. V. 164. (4) Ibid. 162. (5) Ibid. 166. (6) Ibid. 166. (7) Will. Malmesbury, Chronicle, Bk iv, c. 1. (8) Jew. Encyc. V. 162. (9) Summa Theol. 2% 2a% q. x, art. x, conclusion. (10) Hist. Eng. Law, I. 456. (11) Ibid. II. 391. (12) Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, I. 27. (13) Ibid. I. 44. (14) Jew. Encyc. v. 165—6. (15) Hist. Eng. Lawy I. 453. CHAPTER XXIX (pp. 35^-365) (1) Stubbs, Select Charters, 385. (2) Chron. Major (R.S.), ill. 332. (3) L. F. A. Berliner, Jewish Self-Government in the M.A. 217. (4) Chronicon (ed. Hearne), 11. 367. (5) Knighton (R.S.), 1. 157. For the whole subject of chapters xxvm and xxix see a recent paper by Dr Cecil Roth, The Challenge to Jewish History (The Jewish Hist. Soc. of England, Univ. Coll. London, 1936-7). CHAPTER XXX (pp. 366-384) (1) Feudal Monarchy in France and England,, 137. (2) Hist. Eng. Law (1895), 1. 112. Since these words have been pressed into the theory that we owe our Common Law rather to the Church than to our kings, it is well to note how entirely Bishop Stubbs agrees with Petit-Dutaillis (and, it may be added, with medieval chroniclers themselves) in regarding Henry II as the main initiator, and giving similar credit to other sovereigns. Stubbs writes (.Lectures on Medieval and Modern History (1886), 210): “ We all know how enormous is the debt which