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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Volume 42

THE PURCHASE OF PARADISE

THE PURCHASE OF PARADISE

Gift Giving and the Aristocracy, 13071485

JOEL T. ROSENTHAL

First published in 1972 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited

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1972 Joel T. Rosenthal

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THE PURCHASE OF PARADISE

Gift Giving and the Aristocracy, 13071485

Joel T. Rosenthal

Department of History,
State University of New Tork, Stony Brook, New York

First published 1972 in Great Britain by

Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited

and in Canada and the United States of America by

University of Toronto Press

Toronto and Buffalo

Printed in Great Britain by

C. Tinling & Co. Ltd.

London and Prescot

Joel T. Rosenthal 1972

No part of this book may be reproduced in

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RKP ISBN 0 7100 7262 7

UTP ISBN 0 8020 1889 0

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for
Lee,
who correctly thought that gossip was the best part of History

Contents

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This work is an introduction to one aspect of the social history of the English nobility in the later middle ages. I have chosen to examine some of the forms of gift giving between the aristocracy and the church in order to see what an analysis of one particular form of social action can tell us about the givers and the recipients. Gift giving has been chosen because, as a form of semi-voluntary activity, it gets us well away from the oft-covered grounds of baronial politics and economics. It also forces us to work with such concepts as the family and regional favouritism, and thus to re-examine their definition and their validity. I believe that only functional or behavioural studies such as this, rather than abstract definitions, can show us more exactly the framework of the ideas and institutions in which men and women worked in the middle ages. I also believe that, in a field of historical inquiry for which data is hardly abundant, group studies such as this, using simple statistics, offer a variety of insights not available in other ways. Historians who begin their books by announcing that a pioneer work is to follow have always puzzled me. I am content to say that since no one else has chosen to do a study like the one that follows, I have had the pleasure of working at it at various times for the past five years.

I owe many debts for this work, though both in conception and in execution I take full responsibility. The Social Science Research Council was generous enough to support me during a leave of absence from my teaching studies. The Research Foundation of the State University of New York and the American Philosophical Association also gave me tangible support, and the Institute of Historical Research was a generous host, not for the first or last time. Professor Lucy Mair, E. M. Carus-Wilson, F. R. H. DuBoulay, Sylvia Thrupp, and James L. Cate all provided encouragement and support. Professor Herbert S. Klein was a kind and helpful critic. My wife has tried, for several years, to teach me what an historical table is supposed to convey to the reader. I hope her efforts show to some avail: if they do not, I am the opaque window and must take the blame accordingly.

J. T. ROSENTHAL

New York

1971

CPL	Calendar of Papal Letters
CPR	Calendar of Patent Rolls
Fifty Earliest English Wills	Fifty Earliest English Wills: F. J. Furnivall (ed.), Early English Text Society, old series, 78 (1882)
Gibbons	Early Lincoln Wills, A. W. Gibbons (ed.), (Lincoln, 1888)
Jacob	The Register of Henry Chichele: E. F. Jacob (ed.), (Oxford, 1938), vol. 2, wills
K & H	D. Knowles and R. N. Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales (London, 1953)
Monasticon	Sir Wm. Dugdale: Monasticon Anglicanum, J. Caley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel (eds.), (London, 181730), Six volumes
North Country Wills	North Country Wills, J. W. Clay (ed.), Surtees Society, vol. 116 (1908)
PCC	Wills proved before the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, preserved in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House
Repingdon	Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon, 1405-1419, M. Archer (ed.), Lincoln Record Society LVII and LVIII
RW	A Collection of All the Wills of the Kings and Queens of England, etc., J. Nichols (ed.), (London, 1780).
Somerset Wills	Somerset Medieval Wills, F. W. Weaver (ed.), Somerset Record Society, XVI (1901)
TE	Testamenta Eboracensia, J. Raine and J. Raine jr (eds), Surtees Society, vols 4, 30, 45, and 53: volumes of

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