The Church and Northern English Society in the Fourteenth Century – the Archbishops of York and their Records

Edited by Paul Dryburgh and Sarah Rees Jones

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Map: The Ecclesiastical Province of York, c. 1304-1405 Introduction - Paul Dryburgh and Sarah Rees Jones 1. The Administrative Records of the Archbishops of York, 1304-1405 - Sarah Rees Jones 2. The Archbishops of York and the Government of Fourteenth-Century England - Paul Dryburgh 3. Support or Scourge? Archbishop William Melton and the Tradition of Loyal Opposition to the English Crown, 1317-1340 - ¿W. Mark Ormrod 4. Beyond the Border: The Influence of York Clerks in the Two Edwards' Scottish Administrations, 1332-1357 - Jenny M. McHugh 5. Responding to Royal Requirements: Clerical Taxation in the Province of York 1304-1405 - Rosemary C. E. Hayes 6. Ad insolenciam ipsius rebellis salubrius reprimendam: William Thorntoft, the Abbey of Rufford and Significations of Excommunication in the Northern Province - Jonathan Mackman 7. Blood, Sex and Holy Water: Reconciling Churches and Churchyards in the Medieval Diocese of York - Katherine Harvey 8. Structuring Episcopal Authority: Palaces and Residences of the Archbishop of York - Stefania Merlo Perring 9. Medieval Parks of the Archbishops of York - John S. Lee 10. Northern Ways? Pilgrimage, Politics and Piety in the Fourteenth-Century Administrative Records of the Archdiocese of York - John Jenkins 11. Underexplored Sources for Gender History: New Approaches to the Fourteenth-Century York Archbishops' Registers - Marianne Wilson 12. Joan of Leeds and Other Apostate Nuns in the Province of York, 1300-1350 - Helen Watt Select Bibliography Index