This collection is for the specialist familiar with English common law, the legal terminology of cartularies, and an understanding of feudal land tenure. |
To establish this list, Jonathan Riley-Smith has scoured the content of over four hundred published, predominantly French cartularies and charter collections. |
Original cartularies don't pop up very often, and certainly not ones going back to the late eighth century' he said. |
These include narrative sources accounts, seals, charters, papal letters and correspondences that appear in French baronial cartularies. |