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Medieval Londoners

essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline M. Barron

Distributed for University of London Press

Medieval Londoners

essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline M. Barron

Medieval Londoners were a diverse group, some born in the city, and others drawn to the capital from across the realm and from overseas. For some, London became the sole focus of their lives, while others retained or developed networks and loyalties that spread far and wide. The rich evidence for the medieval city, including archaeological and documentary evidence, means that the study of London and its inhabitants remains a vibrant field. Medieval Londoners brings together archaeologists, historians, art-historians and literary scholars whose essays provide glimpses of medieval Londoners in all their variety. This volume is offered to Caroline M. Barron, Emeritus Professor of the History of London at Royal Holloway, University of London, on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Her remarkable career – over some fifty years – has revitalized the way in which we consider London and its people. This volume is a tribute to her scholarship and her friendship and encouragement to others. It is thanks to Caroline M. Barron that the study of medieval London remains as vibrant today as it has ever been.

250 pages | 6.4375 x 9.625 | © 2019

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Table of Contents

Contents     List of contributors Introduction                                Caroline M. Barron I.    Tout as a teacher and university statesman The early years and Wales’s history                Ralph A. Griffiths Tout at Lampeter: the making of a historian            William Gibson The Manchester School of History: Tout’s contribution to the pedagogy of academic history            Peter Slee Tout and the Manchester University Press            Dorothy Clayton Tout and the idea of the university                H. S. Jones [‘Dear Professor Tout . . .’: letters from Tout’s students during the First World War            Christopher Godden] II.    Tout as a political historian Tout and the reign of Edward II                    Seymour Phillips Tout and the royal favourites of Edward II            J. S. Hamilton Tout and the Middle Party                    Paul Dryburgh Tout and higher nobility under the three Edwards        Matthew Raven III.    Tout as an administrative historian Tout and the exchequer                        Nick Barratt Tout and seals                            John McEwan Tout’s administrators: the case of William Moulsoe        Elizabeth Biggs IV:     Tout’s wider influence Institutionalising history: Tout’s involvement with the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association        Ian d’Alton Tout and the Dictionary of National Biography            Henry Summerson Tout’s work as a reviewer                John Milner and Dorothy J. Clayton Tout and literature                        D. Vance Smith Geoffrey Elton’s debt to Tout                    DeLloyd J. Guth The homage volume of 1925                    Joel T. Rosenthal V.    Tout remembered Reflections on my grandfather                    Tom Sharp Index

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