Paul Cavill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5201924 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Cavill |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Cavill |
| ASSINATURA | CAVILL P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5159-4158 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Gathering up the Fragments
Homiletic Fragment II is a short poem of twenty lines in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. Here it is argued that the poem is complete and artful, and neither homiletic nor fragmentary. This article explores the poem in its manuscript context and discusses its vocabulary, themes, content, and effectiveness, with a view to better understanding its structure, and the spiritual impulse behind it. A new interpretation and translation is offered.…
The Prosecution of Heresy in the Henrician Reformation
At the beginning of Henry VIII’s reign, the prosecution of heresy was based on three statutes of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Under this system, the Church tried the crime with the assistance of secular authority. Juries presented suspects, whose cases were then transferred to the church courts for determination. In 1532, the Supplication against the Ordinaries challenged the conduct of heresy trials. It invoked common-law p…
Spellings of Brunanburh Revisited
The article considers the question whether the spellings of the name Brunanburh and Brunnanburh in texts relating to King Athelstan’s battle of 937 indicate the existence of two different places with very similar names, as proposed by Michael Wood. It argues that the claims made for two places are based on mistaken assumptions about the manuscripts and their sources, and that the difference is best explained as orthographic variation. An alternat…
Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester
The battle around Brunanburh in 937 has aroused debate particularly about where it was fought. Many locations have been suggested and a serious contender, Bromborough on the Wirral, has often been too easily dismissed. The article examines some of the assumptions underlying current theories about where the battle took place and particularly how the defeated armies fled, with a view to assessing their accuracy in terms of the evidence available in…
The Battle of Brunanburh
Disputes about where the battle of Brunanburh in 937 was fought continue, but in recent years one particular area, Yorkshire, has been proposed by Michael Wood. This article re-examines some of the strategic detail underlying assumptions about York as the goal of the invading forces and the Humber as their place of arrival and departure. It is demonstrated that lines of Castleford’s Chronicle suggested by Wood to refer to the Brunanburh campaign …
Mortuary dues in early sixteenth-century England
Mortuaries were death duties owed to parish priests. The early sixteenth century was a pivotal moment in their long history. In 1529, an act of parliament significantly altered these dues. This article explores mortuary practices in the preceding decades. It examines what mortuaries were, who gave them, and what purpose they served. The importance of local custom is emphasised. The article reconsiders the modern view that mortuary dues were gener…
A.F. Pollard
A.F. Pollard is now better remembered for founding the Institute of Historical Research than he is for his scholarship. In his heyday, however, Pollard was a formidable and prolific historian, primarily of parliament and the Tudor period. Pollard has been characterised both as a modernist and as a whig historian. Rejecting romantic invocations of liberty, he extolled instead the sovereign nation state, pinpointing the 16th century as the moment w…
Perjury in Early Tudor England
The break with Rome was enforced through a nationwide programme of oath-taking. The Henrician regime resorted to oaths because they were already fundamental to the functioning of the polity. In the preceding half-century, activities as diverse as heresy prosecution, tax assessment and debt litigation depended upon oaths. Irrespective of their often mundane subject matter, oaths were held to be religious acts. Prolific oath-taking, however, led to…
Jonathan Rose, Maintenance in Medieval England
Medieval and early modern English legal history has started to reap the benefits of the wonderful ‘Anglo-American Legal Tradition’ project of digitizing the plea rolls of the central common-law courts. Jonathan Rose’s exhaustive research shows what can be achieved by working one’s way systematically through these records covering a long time span. At the core of this book is a study of actions for maintenance and cognate offences (such as champer…
Unwritten Verities
This is an ambitious attempt to combine two distinctive features of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English common law: its dependence on oral tradition and its reliance on law French. In the first part of the book, the author, Sebastian Sobecki, draws on recent scholarship about late medieval bilingualism in order to reinterpret the retention of law French by the profession. Law French is treated as one element in a broader vernacular language …
The Fifteenth Century XIV
Ships and Brunanburh
Work on ships in the Old English poem The Battle of Brunanburh has principally focused on the word cnear as a lexical item or as having some particular form or appearance. This article draws on this work with a view to elucidating what the poem tells us was happening in the aftermath of the battle of 937. It discusses the significance of the term cnear in relation to the manuscripts, its intelligibility and meaning, before analysing in detail the…
Language-based Approaches to Names in Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
No abstract available
Collected Papers on English Legal History, by John Baker
Editor for the Selden Society, cataloguer of manuscripts, author of the standard introduction to English legal history, writer of the definitive study of common law under the Tudor kings, biographer of hundreds of lawyers, and compiler of a manual of law French, Sir John Baker had no need to improve upon his immense contribution to legal scholarship. Yet this collection adds a formidable body of learning of dauntingly high standard. Eighty-four p…
Purloined Letters
The Essex inquisitions of 1556
Many English Protestants responded to the restoration of Catholicism under Mary by fleeing. The regime attempted to force refugees to return by seizing their property. In Essex in September 1556 two special commissions identified fugitives and their possessions. The returns were enrolled in the court of the exchequer, and this text has been published. The second entry was, however, unfinished. This note locates the missing returns. In addition to…
The Cambridge Companion to Bede
The Cambridge Companion to Bede SCOTT DEGREGORIO (Ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010 xx + 272 pp., 5 pp. maps, ISBN: 978-0-5215-1495-8, £55/$95 hb, ISBN: 978-0-5217-3073-0, £18.99/$32
A Companion to Ælfric (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 18)
HUGH MAGENNIS AND MARY SWAN (Eds.) Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009 xv + 466 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-17681-2, [euro]146/$209 hb It is rare enough that the publisher's blurb matches the content of the boo
The English parliaments of Henry VII, 1485-1504
For a ruler in Henry's vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government & to shape, & on occasion criticize, its policies.
The enforcement of the penal statutes in the 1490s
Henry VII's reputation for avarice partly rests on the enforcement of penal statutes. From about 1505, according to contemporaries, the increasingly grasping king exploited statutory penalties to raise revenue. However, the regime's behaviour should be contextualized by examining the whole reign. Two sources connected with the 1495 parliament shed light on the subject: in one, the king reported his intention to implement existing legislation; in …
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
THE Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) provides for the first time a complete edition of the principal record of the medieval assemblies, from the first surviving roll in 1290 to the last parliament of Henry VII in 1504. PROME supersedes the six-volume Rotuli Parliamentorum, published in 1767–77 under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. The new edition incorporates material edited subsequently, not least by Maitland an…
Maxims in Old English Poetry
Maxims in Old English maxims in the Old Germanic languages definitions the maxim, the proverb and the riddle a gnomic formula the social function of maxims and The Battle of Maldon Christian or not? the Old English maxims.
Children and the rock
(1999). Children and the rock: The ending of the old english metrical psalm 136. English Studies: Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 89-105
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
THE Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) provides for the first time a complete edition of the principal record of the medieval assemblies, from the first surviving roll in 1290 to the last parliament of Henry VII in 1504. PROME supersedes the six-volume Rotuli Parliamentorum, published in 1767–77 under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. The new edition incorporates material edited subsequently, not least by Maitland an…
Children and the rock
(1999). Children and the rock: The ending of the old english metrical psalm 136. English Studies: Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 89-105
Maxims in Old English Poetry
Maxims in Old English maxims in the Old Germanic languages definitions the maxim, the proverb and the riddle a gnomic formula the social function of maxims and The Battle of Maldon Christian or not? the Old English maxims.
The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504
THE Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) provides for the first time a complete edition of the principal record of the medieval assemblies, from the first surviving roll in 1290 to the last parliament of Henry VII in 1504. PROME supersedes the six-volume Rotuli Parliamentorum, published in 1767–77 under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. The new edition incorporates material edited subsequently, not least by Maitland an…
The English parliaments of Henry VII, 1485-1504
For a ruler in Henry's vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government & to shape, & on occasion criticize, its policies.
The enforcement of the penal statutes in the 1490s
Henry VII's reputation for avarice partly rests on the enforcement of penal statutes. From about 1505, according to contemporaries, the increasingly grasping king exploited statutory penalties to raise revenue. However, the regime's behaviour should be contextualized by examining the whole reign. Two sources connected with the 1495 parliament shed light on the subject: in one, the king reported his intention to implement existing legislation; in …
A Companion to Ælfric (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 18)
HUGH MAGENNIS AND MARY SWAN (Eds.) Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009 xv + 466 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-17681-2, [euro]146/$209 hb It is rare enough that the publisher's blurb matches the content of the boo
The Cambridge Companion to Bede
The Cambridge Companion to Bede SCOTT DEGREGORIO (Ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010 xx + 272 pp., 5 pp. maps, ISBN: 978-0-5215-1495-8, £55/$95 hb, ISBN: 978-0-5217-3073-0, £18.99/$32
The Essex inquisitions of 1556
Many English Protestants responded to the restoration of Catholicism under Mary by fleeing. The regime attempted to force refugees to return by seizing their property. In Essex in September 1556 two special commissions identified fugitives and their possessions. The returns were enrolled in the court of the exchequer, and this text has been published. The second entry was, however, unfinished. This note locates the missing returns. In addition to…
Collected Papers on English Legal History, by John Baker
Editor for the Selden Society, cataloguer of manuscripts, author of the standard introduction to English legal history, writer of the definitive study of common law under the Tudor kings, biographer of hundreds of lawyers, and compiler of a manual of law French, Sir John Baker had no need to improve upon his immense contribution to legal scholarship. Yet this collection adds a formidable body of learning of dauntingly high standard. Eighty-four p…
Purloined Letters
Language-based Approaches to Names in Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
No abstract available
Unwritten Verities
This is an ambitious attempt to combine two distinctive features of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English common law: its dependence on oral tradition and its reliance on law French. In the first part of the book, the author, Sebastian Sobecki, draws on recent scholarship about late medieval bilingualism in order to reinterpret the retention of law French by the profession. Law French is treated as one element in a broader vernacular language …
The Fifteenth Century XIV
Ships and Brunanburh
Work on ships in the Old English poem The Battle of Brunanburh has principally focused on the word cnear as a lexical item or as having some particular form or appearance. This article draws on this work with a view to elucidating what the poem tells us was happening in the aftermath of the battle of 937. It discusses the significance of the term cnear in relation to the manuscripts, its intelligibility and meaning, before analysing in detail the…
Jonathan Rose, Maintenance in Medieval England
Medieval and early modern English legal history has started to reap the benefits of the wonderful ‘Anglo-American Legal Tradition’ project of digitizing the plea rolls of the central common-law courts. Jonathan Rose’s exhaustive research shows what can be achieved by working one’s way systematically through these records covering a long time span. At the core of this book is a study of actions for maintenance and cognate offences (such as champer…
Perjury in Early Tudor England
The break with Rome was enforced through a nationwide programme of oath-taking. The Henrician regime resorted to oaths because they were already fundamental to the functioning of the polity. In the preceding half-century, activities as diverse as heresy prosecution, tax assessment and debt litigation depended upon oaths. Irrespective of their often mundane subject matter, oaths were held to be religious acts. Prolific oath-taking, however, led to…
Mortuary dues in early sixteenth-century England
Mortuaries were death duties owed to parish priests. The early sixteenth century was a pivotal moment in their long history. In 1529, an act of parliament significantly altered these dues. This article explores mortuary practices in the preceding decades. It examines what mortuaries were, who gave them, and what purpose they served. The importance of local custom is emphasised. The article reconsiders the modern view that mortuary dues were gener…
A.F. Pollard
A.F. Pollard is now better remembered for founding the Institute of Historical Research than he is for his scholarship. In his heyday, however, Pollard was a formidable and prolific historian, primarily of parliament and the Tudor period. Pollard has been characterised both as a modernist and as a whig historian. Rejecting romantic invocations of liberty, he extolled instead the sovereign nation state, pinpointing the 16th century as the moment w…
Spellings of Brunanburh Revisited
The article considers the question whether the spellings of the name Brunanburh and Brunnanburh in texts relating to King Athelstan’s battle of 937 indicate the existence of two different places with very similar names, as proposed by Michael Wood. It argues that the claims made for two places are based on mistaken assumptions about the manuscripts and their sources, and that the difference is best explained as orthographic variation. An alternat…
Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester
The battle around Brunanburh in 937 has aroused debate particularly about where it was fought. Many locations have been suggested and a serious contender, Bromborough on the Wirral, has often been too easily dismissed. The article examines some of the assumptions underlying current theories about where the battle took place and particularly how the defeated armies fled, with a view to assessing their accuracy in terms of the evidence available in…
The Battle of Brunanburh
Disputes about where the battle of Brunanburh in 937 was fought continue, but in recent years one particular area, Yorkshire, has been proposed by Michael Wood. This article re-examines some of the strategic detail underlying assumptions about York as the goal of the invading forces and the Humber as their place of arrival and departure. It is demonstrated that lines of Castleford’s Chronicle suggested by Wood to refer to the Brunanburh campaign …
The Prosecution of Heresy in the Henrician Reformation
At the beginning of Henry VIII’s reign, the prosecution of heresy was based on three statutes of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Under this system, the Church tried the crime with the assistance of secular authority. Juries presented suspects, whose cases were then transferred to the church courts for determination. In 1532, the Supplication against the Ordinaries challenged the conduct of heresy trials. It invoked common-law p…
Gathering up the Fragments
Homiletic Fragment II is a short poem of twenty lines in the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. Here it is argued that the poem is complete and artful, and neither homiletic nor fragmentary. This article explores the poem in its manuscript context and discusses its vocabulary, themes, content, and effectiveness, with a view to better understanding its structure, and the spiritual impulse behind it. A new interpretation and translation is offered.…
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