Essays upon the History of Meaux Abbey and Some Principles of Mediaeval Land Tenure Based upon a Consideration of the Latin Chronicles of Meaux (AD 1150–1400)

Abstract

THE author of this volume is, we apprehend, a curate of Nafferton-with-Wansford, in Yorkshire, who, having obtained an exhibition at St. John's College, Cambridge, for ecclesiastical history, has not neglected the subject in which he obtained distinction. We welcome all such additions to the skeleton army of genuine students of antiquity, but Mr. Earle has his spurs to win and his authority to establish, for it is not to be assumed that he learnt much about monastic chartularies and chronicles at Cambridge. We make this preliminary remark because Mr. Earle has not fortified his observations by marginal references to authority; he has written no preface, and has supplied no index. We presume these essays are intended for his neighbours, and are the result of notes for lectures on the subject of an interesting abbey to the dhapter of which the author's church belonged.

Essays upon the History of Meaux Abbey and Some Principles of Mediaeval Land Tenure. Based upon a Consideration of the Latin Chronicles of Meaux (A.D. 1150–1400.)

By Rev. A. Earle. Pp. 192. (Hull and London: Brown and Sons, Ltd., 1906.)