medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear John
I'm sorry for the delayed response to your enquiry. I have been having
internet problems. I also wanted to send you an informed response.
You may not realise that the Canterbury and York Society is not a
grant-giving body or a commissioning publisher. We were established in 1904
to publish medieval ecclesiastical records relating to England and Wales.
Like many other record-publishing societies, we are totally reliant for
income on the subscriptions and donations of our members and the sales of
our publications. All our officers are non-stipendiary. With one or two
exceptions, we do not seek to commission work. Rather, we respond to the
offers of publications that come to us. Our Honorary General Editor and
Council consider whether they fall within our remit and are of sufficient
quality to be published under our imprint. I hope you will agree that the
present volume under discussion fulfills both these criteria.
As to the period covered: these volumes are one of the products (there are
also articles by the researchers, PD Clarke and PNR Zutshi) of a
Leverhulme-funded research project at Cambridge University on 'English and
Welsh entries in the registers of the papal penitentiary to 1503'. As
Gordon has explained, the registers date from 1410. As regards the cut-off
date, the project's director, Dr Zutshi, has informed me that 'our aim was
to cover all the fifteenth-century registers, and the closest end date was
the death of Alexander VI. Naturally we also needed a manageable project in
terms of the funding available. This doesn't preclude us going into the
sixteenth century, as far as the Reformation, or indeed beyond, if we can
get further funding. I don't think the records change after 1503, but the
truth of the matter is that very little work has been done on the
sixteenth-century registers.'
I hope that that answers your query. If the publishers of the Calendars of
Papal Letters had had to wait for the researchers to get up to the
Reformation, we would still be waiting.
Rosemary Hayes
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Briggs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] new publication on Apostolic Penitentiary 1410-64
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> On 08/03/2013 19:21, Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
>>
>> Covers all extant Registers down to end of pontificate of Alexander VI.
>> The edition has been ten years in the making - I guess they had to draw
>> a line somewhere.
>
> I would have thought that the Canterbury and York Society would have
> realised that as far as England and Wales are concerned something like
> 1534 (if not a bit earlier) would be the more obvious place to draw the
> line! Choosing the end of pontificate of Alexander VI is just weird.
>
> I am surprised that there are no extant registers before 1410.
> --
> John Briggs
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