The Canterbury Roll – A Digital Edition

Edited by Chris Jones, Christopher Thomson, Maree Shirota, Elisabeth Rolston, Thandi Parker, and Jennifer Middendorf

Open Access Digital Facsimile of Christchurch, University of Canterbury, MS 1
With Latin transcription, English translation, notes, and introductory material.

Canterbury University Press
December 2017
OpenAccess
Original document: 4890 x 334mm, full colour
ISBN: 978-1-98-850307-3

The Canterbury Roll is a 15th-century English genealogical text. It was created in the late 1420s/early 1430s and subsequently modified on a number of occasions before final revisions were made to it, most probably during the reign of Richard III (1483—1485). The genealogy is accompanied by an extensive commentary in Latin. The five-metre long manuscript roll, the work of at least four scribes, was purchased by the University of Canterbury in 1918 from the Maude family of Christchurch.

This open access Digital Edition presents a new transcription and English translation of the Roll, both of which are mapped to a high quality digital facsimile. The edition is accompanied by academic apparatus, a detailed introduction, and full documentation. It is embedded within a website that provides further contextual information on the Roll and its history.

The Digital Edition includes:

A new, high definition facsimile of the complete Canterbury Roll manuscript.
The first new English translation and Latin transcription of the Roll produced in a century.
A downloadable edition of Arnold Wall’s 1919 edition of the Roll as well as a “Getting Started” handbook and detailed User Guide.
Accompanying essays that explore the origins of the Roll, its use as medieval propaganda, and its place in New Zealand history.
The Project Team welcome feedback on any aspect of the project and are particularly interested in commissioning peer review reports that will inform the release of Stage 2 in 2019. Expressions of interest from established scholars and any comments should be sent to the General Editor (chris.jones@canterbury.ac.nz).

Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society compares two successful, elite medieval women, Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda, for their relative ability to retain their wealth and power in the midst of the profound social changes of the eleventh century. The careers of the Ottonian queen and empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda of Tuscany reveal a growth of opportunities for women to access wealth and power. These two women are analysed under three categories: their relationships with family and friends, how they managed their property (particularly land) and how they ruled. This analysis encourages a better understanding of gender relations in both the past and the present.

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Recent Publication:

A World of Empires. Claiming and Assigning Imperial Authority in the High and Late Middle Ages

Chris Jones (Canterbury), Klaus Oschema (Ruhr University Bochum) and Christoph Mauntel (University of Tübingen) published the co-edited collection A World of Empires. Claiming and Assigning Imperial Authority in the High and Late Middle Ages as a special issue of The Medieval History Journal (20:2 [2017]). The volume is a collection of seven articles that explore the use of the Latin terms ‘empire’ and ‘emperor’ and their vernacular equivalents in the later medieval centuries. A product, in part, of sessions held at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2014, the volume features the work of scholars based in New Zealand, Germany, France and the Netherlands. 

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Recent Publication:

Magna Carta and New Zealand
History, Politics and Law in Aotearoa

This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal, political and popular culture. Readers will benefit from in-depth analyses of the Charter’s reception along with explorations of its roles in regard to larger constitutional themes.
The common thread that binds the collection together is its exploration of what the adoption of a medieval charter as part of New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements has meant – and might mean – for a Pacific nation whose identity remains in flux. The contributions to this volume are grouped around three topics: remembrance and memorialization of Magna Carta; the reception of the Charter by both Māori and non-Māori between 1840 and 2015; and reflection on the roles that the Charter may yet play in future constitutional debate. This collection provides evidence of the enduring attraction of Magna Carta, and its importance as a platform of constitutional aspiration.

Edited by Stephen Winter & Chris Jones 

For more information: 
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319584386 

The shopping cart for the print copy of A Festschrift in Memory of Philippa Maddern (co-edited by ANZAMEMS members Patricia Alessi and Deborah Seiler), a special edition published through Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, is now up and running.

This journal issue was created in honour of the medieval historian and late director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100-1800.

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