First published in 1950, this text discusses the way in which English bishops of the 12th and 13th centuries issued their official documents and preserved their official records. The first chapters touch on the types of men to be found among the bishops' clerks and trace the emergence of bishops' chancellors. A lengthy chapter is devoted to the external and internal characteristics of the documents issued; this study in the "diplomatic" serves to suggest the historical development of the secretariat, and the royal and papal influences at work on diocesan government. A chapter on archives discusses the accumulations of records which the bishops' clerks employed, and indicates the material which they compiled in the shape of formularies and matriculae, before the time of the bishops' registers in the later Middle Ages.
- ISBN10 0719012066
- ISBN13 9780719012068
- Publish Date December 1950
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 January 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 188
- Language English