Mortmain Legislation and the English Church 1279–1500

Sandra Raban (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-07241-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Introduction; 1. The statute of 1279 and its antecedents; 2. The working of the statute; 3. Enforcement of the statute; 4. Manipulation of the statute; 5. Patterns of Ecclesiastical accession; 6. The impact of mortmain legislation on the church, Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.8.2008
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-521-07241-7 / 0521072417
ISBN-13	978-0-521-07241-0 / 9780521072410
Zustand	Neuware