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by Raban, Sandra

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Summary

This is a comprehensive survey of medieval English mortmain legislation from both the point of view of the crown and that of the Church. It examines methods of enforcement and evaluates their success. It traces the emergence of licensing policies and the increasing exploitation of licences for fiscal purposes, while at the same time establishing that this was not their original purpose. The extent to which the Church was acquiring land on a threatening scale by the later thirteenth century is questioned, and the effects of the legislation on subsequent acquisition are assessed against the background of new fashions in ecclesiastical patronage and a more hostile economic climate. The statutes of 1279 and 1391 are well known. What this study shows is how much variation lay behind the apparently straightforward system of licensing and how closely the issue of mortmain tenure was related to wider social, political and economic considerations.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1982.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (233 p.) : : PDF file(s).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511896095, 0511896093, 9780521242332, 0521242339
oclc:on1229763123
Dewey Decimal:346.4204/2 344.20642

Subjects

Angleterre -- Histoire religieuse -- 10… Church history Droit médiéval England England -- Church history -- 1066-1485 Great Britain History Law, Medieval Mainmorte -- Histoire. -- Grande-Bretag… Mortmain Mortmain -- History. -- Great Britain