Bibliography
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Editions
Digital Edition
Jones, Chris, Chris Thomson, Maree Shirota, Elisabeth Rolston, Thandi Parker, and Jennifer Middendorf, ed., “The Canterbury Roll – A Digital Edition,”The Canterbury Roll Project. Accessed December 1, 2017./canterburyroll.
1919 Edition
Handbook to the Maude Roll: Being a XVth century MS. Genealogy of the British and English Kings from Noah to Edward IV., with Marginal History, edited and translated by Arnold Wall. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1919.DOWNLOAD(10MB)
Working Papers
Canterbury Roll Working Papers are an occasional series of papers published by the Canterbury Roll Project. They are reviewed and approved by the CRP’s Co-Directors but not peer-reviewed. Text copyright © the author(s) as named. Images copyright the institutions and individuals as credited.
Daines, Damon, “Another Role for the Canterbury Roll? Table Linen in the Fifteenth Century.” InThe Canterbury Roll Project, edited by Chris Jones and Natasha Hodgson, Canterbury Roll Working Paper 1 (November 2021).
Secondary Literature
For the Canterbury Rollin its Medieval Context
Boon, Jayson. "" Masters diss., ҕl, 2021.
Jones, Chris. "." InEncyclopedia of the Middle Ages, edited by Graeme Dunphy and Christian Bratu, online. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Jones, Chris. "The Canterbury Roll." InTreasures of the ҕl Library, edited by Chris Jones and Bronwyn Matthews with Jennifer Clement, 85–90. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2011.
McKay, Natasha. "" BA Hons diss., ҕl, 2019.
Parker, Thandiwe. "A Woman’s Role: How Scribes Depicted Women On The Fifteenth-Century Canterbury Roll."Comitatus48, (2017): 95–115,
Parker, Thandi. "." BA Hons diss., ҕl, 2016.
Pratt, Cameron. "A Weapon of Legitimacy: The Anglo-French Dual Monarchy During the Reigns of Henry VI and Edward IV." BA Hons diss., ҕl, 2020.
Shirota, Maree. "Royal Depositions and the 'Canterbury Roll'."Parergon32, no. 2 (2015): 39–61, Project MUSE.
Shirota, Maree. "." Masters diss., ҕl, 2015.
For Scripts & Notation
Brown, Michelle.A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Pettersson, John. "Numerical Notation." InThe World’s Writing Systems,edited by Peter Daniels and William Bright, 795–806. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
For the Canterbury Rollin its New Zealand Context
Hayward, Rebecca. "Prestige and Pedagogy: The Ownership of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts by New Zealand Universities." InMigrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, edited by Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt, 89–107. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Jones, Chris. "A Warning to the Curious: Medieval & Early Modern Collections in ҕl New Zealand."Parergon32, no. 2 (2015): 1–16, Project MUSE.
Manion, Margaret M., Vera F. Vines, and Christopher de Hamel.Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections.Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
Rouse, Robert A. "Inscribing Lineage: Writing and Rewriting the Maude Roll." InMigrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, edited by Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt, 108–122. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
For the "Noah" Group & Yorkist Rolls
Allan, Alison. "Royal Propaganda and the Proclamations of Edward IV."Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research59, (1986): 146–154.
Allan, Alison. "Yorkist Propaganda: Pedigree, Prophecy and the 'British History' in the Reign of Edward IV." InPatronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England, edited by Charles D. Ross, 171–192. Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1979.
Allan, Alison, "Political Propaganda employed by the House of York in England in the mid-fifteenth century, 1450–1471." PhD diss., University of Wales (University College, Swansea), 1981.
Anglo, Sydney. "The British History in Early Tudor Propaganda."Bulletin of the John Rylands Library44 (1961): 17–48.
Griffiths, Ralph A. "The Sense of Dynasty in the Reign of Henry VI." InPatronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England, edited by Charles D. Ross, 13–36. Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1979.
For Chronicles & Chronicle Rolls in General
Coote, Lesley. "Prophecy, Genealogy, and History in Medieval English Political Discourse." InBroken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Late-Medieval Britain and France, edited by Raluca Radulescu and Edward D. Kennedy, 27–44. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
Fisher, Matthew. "Genealogy Rewritten: Inheriting the Legendary in Insular Historiography." InBroken Lines, Genealogical Literature in Medieval England and France, edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy, 123–141. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
Given-Wilson, Chris.Chronicles: The Writing of History in Medieval England.Hambledon: Continuum, 2004.
Laborderie, Olivier de.Histoire, memoire et pouvoir. Les genealogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre (1250–1422).Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013.
Laborderie, Olivier de. "A New Pattern for English History: The First Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England." InBroken Lines, Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France, edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy, 45–61. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
Spence, John. "Genealogies of Noble Families in Anglo Norman." InBroken Lines, Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France, edited by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy, 63–77. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.
For a detailed bibliography and a project to catalogue all such scrolls, please consult the Harvard database.
For the Life & Career of Arnold Wall
Deverson, Tony. "Wall, Arnold." InDictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1996.Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Accessed November 12, 2017..
Wall, Arnold.Long and Happy: An Autobiography. Wellington: Reed, 1965.
For an Introduction to the Wars of the Roses
Carpenter, Christine.The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437–1509.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Griffiths, Ralph.The Reign of Henry VI, new edn. Sutton: Stroud: 1998.
Griffiths, Ralph A., "The Crown and the Royal Family in Late Medieval England." InKings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages: A Tribute to Charles Ross, edited by Ralph A. Griffiths and James Sherborne, 15–26. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1986.
For Digitization & Digital Projects
Burns, Jasmine Elizabeth. "Digital Facsimiles and the Modern Viewer: Medieval Manuscripts and Archival Practice in the Age of New Media."Art Documentation: Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America33, no. 4 (2014): 148–167.
Ciula, Arianna, and Tamara Lopez. "Reflecting on a Dual Publication: Henry III Fine Rolls Print and Web."Literary and Linguistic Computing24, no. 2 (2009): 129–141,
Phillips, Jock. "A Click to the Past: Digital History in New Zealand."New Zealand Journal of History47, no. 2 (2013): 232–248.
For Other Digitised Rolls
Given the technical challenges they pose, few 15th-century manuscript rolls are presently available online. For some rare exceptions:
Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia,[Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV] (c. 1461) [images of sections of the roll are available via a search; there is no stable URL]
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania,[Genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV] (c. 1461)
See also:
La Chronique Anonyme Universelle.Reading and Writing History in Fifteenth-Century France, edited and translated by Lisa Fagin Davis. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2014. This is accompanied by aCD-Rom, which contains a digitized transcription/translation of one of the manuscripts used to create the critical edition []
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