My Research Shelf

I've had a few requests lately asking what sources I have to hand when writing my posts. Never scared of a challenge, I set to listing them all - including online resources - and was rather shocked at the length of the list! Anyway, for those who are interested, here it is:

My Research Resources as of 24/01/2010:

Books
A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases – James Morwood
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases – Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain – Marc Morris
Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Second Edition: A-C ed by Stewart Gregory, William Rothwell et al
Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Second Edition: D-E, ed by Stewart Gregory, William Rothwell et al
Archaology of the Medieval English Monarchy – John Steane
Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke 1307 - 1324: Baronial Politics in the Reign of Edward II – J.R.S. Phillips
Bannockburn, 1314 – Pete Armstrong
Castles of the Welsh Princes – Paul R. Davis
Crown and Nobility: England 1272-1461 – Anthony Tuck
Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History – Dorothy H. Crawford
Discovering Medieval Houses – Anthony Emery
Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning – Gunter Bandmann
Edward II – Harold Hutchison
Edward II – Mary Saaler
English Medieval Knight 1200-1300 – Christopher Gravett
English Medieval Knight 1300-1400 – Christopher Gravett
Eyewitness Castle – Christopher Gravett
Food and Cooking in Medieval Britain: History and Recipes – Maggie Black
Food and Feast in Medieval England – Peter Hammond
Four Maps of London: 1520-1902
Hildegard’s Healing Plants (From her Physica) – trans. Bruce W. Hozeski
Historic Gloucester – Philip Moss
Introduction to Manuscript Studies – Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II – Paul Doherty
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England – Alison Weir
King Edward II: His Life, His Reign and Its Aftermath, 1284-1330 – Roy Martin Haines
Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy Under Edward III – Andrew Ayton
Knights at Tournament – Christopher Gravett
Latin for Dummies – Hull, Perkins and Barr
Learn Latin – Peter Jones
Letters of Medieval Women – ed. Anne Crawford
Life in a Medieval Castle – Brenda Ralph Lewis
Living and Dining in Medieval Paris: The Household of the Fourteenth Century Knight – Nicole Crossley-Holland
London: A Life in Maps- Peter Whitfield
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520 – Christopher Dyer
Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture – Joan Cadden
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice – Nancy G. Siraisi
Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History – Maggie Black (for English Heritage)
Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries – Mary G. Houston
Medieval Craftsmen: Embroiderers – Kay Staniland
Medieval Gardens – Anne Jennings
Medieval Ships and Sailing – Gillian Hutchison
Medieval Tiles – Hans van Lemmen
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women 450 – 1500 – Henrietta Leyser
Menestrellorum Multitudo: Minstrels at a Royal Feast – Constance Bullock Davies
Sex in History – Reay Tannahill
Politics, Finance and the Church in the Reign of Edward II: Walter Stapledon, Treasurer of England – Mark Buck
Tewkesbury 1471: The Last Yorkist Victory – Christopher Gravett
Tewkesbury Abbey: History, Art and Architecture – ed. Morris and Shoesmith
Textiles and Clothing 1150-1450 – Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland
The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk – John Cummings
The Baronial Opposition to Edward II – J.C. Davies
The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314 – Aryeh Nusbacher
The Bruce – John Barbour
The English Manor: c.1200-c.1500 – Mark Bailey
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England, 1327-1330 – Ian Mortimer
The Great Household in Late Medieval England – Chris Woolgar
The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 – Anne Curry
The Itinerary of Edward II and His Household – E.M. Hallam
The Medieval Underworld – Andrew McCall
The Observer’s Book of Castles – Brian K. Davison
The Paleography of Gothic Manuscript Books From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century – Albert Derolez
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation – Ian Mortimer
The Place of the Reign of Edward II In English History – T.F. Tout
The Plagues of London – Stephen Porter
The Reign of Edward II: New Perspectives – eds. Dodd & Musson
The Romance of the Rose – a translation by Frances Horgan
The Senses in Late Medieval England – C.M. Woolgar
The Spectacle of the Scaffold – Michel Foucault
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century – Ian Mortimer
The Tournament in England 1100-1400 – Juliet Barker
The Trotula – ed. Monica H. Green
The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326 – Natalie Fryde
The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period – Michael Goodich
The War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325): Gascon Correspondence and Diplomatic Documents – Pierre Chaplais
The Welsh wars of Independence – David Moore


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Chronicles
Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II, Vol 1: Annales Londonienses and Annales Paulini
Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke (Chronicle of Geoffrey Baker of Swinbrook)
Foedera, Vol 2, Part 1
Scalacronica
The Chronicle of Lanercost
The Forme of Cury
Vita Edwardi Secundi


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Articles

'A Protest Against the Despensers, 1326' – G.A. Holmes, in Speculum, Vol 30, No. 2
'The Despensers and the Downfall of Edward II' – Nigel Saul, in The English Historical Review, No. CCCXC
'The First Journal of Edward II’s Chamber' – James Conway Davies, in English Historical Review, 1915, XXX
'Retinues at the Tournament of Dunstable, 1309' – A. Tomkinson, in English Historical Review LXXIV, 1959
'The Deposits of Hugh Despenser the Younger with Italian Bankers' – E.B. Fryde, in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol 3, No. 3 (1951)
'The Despenser War in Glamorgan' – J. Conway Davies, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Third Series, Vol.9 (1915)
'Judgement on the Younger Despenser, 1326' – G.A. Holmes, in The English Historical Review 1955 LXX (CCLXXV)
'Bishops and Politics in the Reign of Edward II: Hamo de Hethe, Henry Wharton, and the ‘Historia Roffensis’' – Roy Martin Haines, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Oct 93
'Deconstructing Identities on the Scaffold:the Execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, 1326' – Danielle Westerhof, in Journal of Medieval History 33 (2007)
'The Princely Court in Northern Europe, 1270-1380' – Malcolm Vale, in History Today, Vol. 52, Issue 7

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Primary Sources

Calendar of Chancery Warrants 1244-1326
Calendar of Charter Rolls Volume 3 1300-1326
Issues of the Exchequer: King Henry III to King Henry VI Inclusive
The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, Volume 1 1306-1424
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, Volume 3, 1307-1357
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Volume 1
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, Volume 2
Calendar of Letterbooks of London, Letter Book B, 1275-1312
Calendar of Letterbooks of London, Letter Book D, 1309-1314
Calendar of Letterbooks of London, Letter Book E, 1314-1337
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II, 1305-1341
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol IV, 1296-1302
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol V, 1302-1307
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol VI, 1307-1313
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol VII, 1313-1318
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol VIII, 1318-1323
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol IX, 1323-1327
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Vol X, 1327-1330
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, Vol II, 1307-1319
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, Vol III, 1319-1327
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1307-1313
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1317-1321
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1321-1324
Calendar of the Patent Rolls 1324-1327
The Statutes of the Realm, Vol 1, 1101-1377
The Parliamentary Rolls
SAL MS 122 (photographs taken of document – yet to be fully transcribed/translated)
E101/379/11 (photographs taken of document – yet to be fully transcribed/translated)
E101/376/15 (photographs taken of document – yet to be fully transcribed/translated)
E101/379/7 (photographs taken of document – yet to be fully transcribed/translated)
E101/379/17 (photographs taken of document – yet to be fully transcribed/translated)

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Other Resources Online

British History Online
National Archives Online
Anglo-Norman Dictionary Online

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My Wishlist!

For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh – Frances A. Underhill
Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-22: A Study in the Reign of Edward II – J.R. Maddicott
Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons 1273-1327, Vol I
'Judgement of Hugh Despenser, the Younger' – J. Taylor (article)
Plenty more trips to the National Archives to view and photograph documents – and then someone who can transcribe and translate (especially Latin!)

By the way, just because some books were included in this list it does not necessarily mean that I endorse them as good sources for facts!