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The Later-Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem: Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Medieval Society, edited by Michael Hicks
Posted by: mhicks in News and events, Project news 8 years ago
The proceedings of the second IPM conference at Winchester in 2014 have now been proof-read and are scheduled to be published in July 2016. The Later-Medieval Inquisitions Post Mortem: Mapping the Medieval Countryside and Medieval Society is the product of collaboration between the University of Winchester, the Department for Digital Humanities at King’s College London, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which funded the parent project, and the Boydell Press (publisher). The book showcases recent work on the Inquisitions post mortem (IPMs): a truly wonderful source for many different aspects of late medieval countryside and rural life. An earlier Companion, ed. Michael Hicks (Boydell, 2012) consolidated what was already known. Since then IPMs have been made digitally accessible by the Mapping the Medieval Countryside project. The first fruits of these developments are presented in this second volume which brings explores the unexpected potential of this much under-appreciated source. The thirteen chapters explore IPMs in different parts of Britain, the landscape and topography of England, in particular markets and fairs and mills, and the utility of proofs of age for everyday life on such topics as the Church, retaining, and the wine trade. The full list of contents follows.
Place-name challenge
Posted by: mholford 8 years, 4 months ago
A number of places mentioned in the IPMs have not been identified, for various reasons. Existing works of reference may be inadequate or may not have been available when the volumes were originally compiled. Sometimes the resources required to identify places - time as well as reference works - may not have been available to the editors. In many cases, however, identification is possible with further work and in particular with local knowledge. Perhaps you can help us identify some of the unidentified locations in volume 21, listed below by county. (These are major place-names only: in general the calendars did not attempt to identify minor names such as field-names.)
Corrigenda
Posted by: mholford 8 years, 4 months ago
We have a new corrigenda page! It will alert you to mistakes we have found while we are waiting for the next site update, when corrections will be fully incorporated.
Too pally by half? The Shopshire inquisition of Humphrey Hille
Posted by: mhicks in Law and administration 8 years, 9 months ago
eCIPM 25.261-93
Posted by: mholford 8 years, 9 months ago
[update 16 July 2015: the issue with the display of the IPMs has been resolved and they can now be seen on the main website]