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Dialogus de Scaccario, and Constitutio Domus Regis : The Dialogue of the Exchequer, and The Disposition of the Royal Household
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amt, Emilie.
- Series:
- Oxford Medieval Texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance, Public.
- Hofhouding.
- Openbare financien̈.
- Royal households.
- Finance, Public--History--To 1688--Great Britain--Sources.
- Royal households--History--To 1500--Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Exchequer.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Henry I, 1100-1135--Sources.
- Great Britain--History--Henry II, 1154-1189--Sources.
- Local Subjects:
- Finance, Public.
- Hofhouding.
- Openbare financien̈.
- Royal households.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new edition contains the texts and brand new translations of two key documents of twelfth-century English history. The Dialogus de Scaccario (Dialogue of the Exchequer) is a medieval financial manual written by a royal official, Richard fitzNigel: it describes the sources of royal revenue, details the functions of those collected money for the king, and explains how the exchequer maintained control over the king's money. The Constitutio Domus Regis lists the job titles and allowances of those people whose responsibility was to look after the domestic needs of the king and his court circle
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATED REFERENCES; INTRODUCTION TO THE DIALOGVS DE SCACCARIO; I. Authorship; II. The Date of the Text; III. The Work of the Exchequer; IV. Development of the Exchequer; V. The Manuscripts; VI. Previous Editions; VII. The Establishment of the Text; VIII. Editorial Practice; INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSTITVTIO DOMVS REGIS; I. Background; II. The History of the Royal Domus; III. Approaches to the Constitutio; IV. The Royal Household; V. The Manuscripts; VI. The Manuscripts: A Visual Inspection; VII. The Language of the Text; VIII. Previous Editions
- IX. Editorial PracticeSIGLA; DIALOGVS DE SCACCARIO; Prologue; Book I; Book II; CONSTITVTIO DOMVS REGIS; CONCORDANCE; INDEX OF QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS; BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS; ALLUSIONS TO CLASSICAL AND PATRISTIC SOURCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 8, 2019).
- Contains:
- Constitutio domus regis.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187783-2
- 0-19-156903-8
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