English Episcopal Acta 46

A new volume in the English Episcopal Acta series, Hoskins draws together for the first time the surviving documents issued by the bishops of the small diocese of Rochester form the mid-thirteenth to the early-fourteenth centuries: men who varied form local monks to members of national government. These are administrative records but not just concerned with the dry details of bureaucracy. They provide us with a way to access the concerns and lives of ordinaryindividuals in one part of medieval England. English Episcopal Acta 46: Rochester 1235-1318 contains full texts of the Latin documents with English descriptions to help users and a detailed introduction puts the records, and the diocese of Rochester, in their medieval context.