The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1

“Even to skim through these two volumes is enough to give a sense of the richness and importance of the ‘states’ as mentioned on the first page … those with an interest in the economic and social history of Westminster Abbey, or of late medieval Europe more generally, will find much here to sink their teeth into. * Richard Allen, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies *

Barbara Harvey is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her publications have focused on late medieval social, economic and ecclesiastical history and especially on Westminster Abbey and its estates. They include Documents llustrating the Rule of Watler de Wenlok, Abbot of Westminster, 1283-1307; Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages; and Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience, which centres on the lives of monks of Westminster Abbey, and which was joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993.Chris Woolgar is Professor of History and Archival Studies at the University of Southampton. He has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, especially in late medieval England, in patterns of documentation and in editorial work. His publications include Household Accounts from Medieval England, The Great Household in Late Medieval England, The Senses in Late Medieval England, Testamentary Records of the English and Welsh Episcopate 1200-1413 and The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.