Title: The fifteenth-century inquisitions post mortem : a companion /
Authors: Hicks, Michael, 1948-
Publisher: Boydell Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Inquisitiones post mortem England History; Great Britain History Sources.
Contents: Introduction / Michael Hicks -- Crossing generations: dower, joinutre and courtesy / Michael Hicks -- The lesser landowners and the inquisitions post mortem / Christine Carpenter -- Tales of idios, signifying something: evidence of process in the inquisitions post mortem / Kate Parkin -- The value of fifteenth-century inquisitions post mortem for economic and social history / Christopher Dyer -- 'Notoriously unreliable': the valuations and extents / Matthew Holford -- The descriptions of land found in the inquisitions post mortem and feet of fines: a case study of Berkshire / Margaret Yates -- Re-assessing Josiah Russell's measurements of late medieval mortality using the inquisitions post mortem / L.R. Poos, J. Oeppen and R.M. Smith -- A great historical enterprise: the public record office and the making of the calendars of inquisitions post mortem / Sean Cunningham -- Writs and the inquisitions post mortem: how the crown managed the system / Claire Noble -- "Thrifty men of the Country'? The jurors and their role / Matthew holford -- Place-names and calendaring practices / Oliver Padel.