Medieval

The project aims to provide a powerful tool for research on medieval English history by analysing documents generated by English monasteries with the help of databases. The questions the project addressed are: What properties (manors, churches and chapels) did each monastery own? How many monastic properties can be found in each county, and which houses, of which orders, owned them? What genres of documents did monasteries produce? How many documents in each genre have survived? Where are they to be found? How many documents of each type did each individual monastery produce?

"The treasure roll of Richard II, compiled in 1398/9, offers a rare insight into the magnificence of a late medieval English king. The roll, unknown until it was rediscovered in the 1990s, describes in exceptional detail the crowns, jewels, and other precious objects belonging to the king and to his two queens, Anne of Bohemia and Isabelle of France. The value of the items listed on the roll is extraordinary even by modern standards, as is the craftsmanship and skill that went into their production.

"A Key to English Place-Names is a database maintained at the Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, The University of Nottingham. It is intended to provide an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages, drawing on the work of the English Place-Name Society (itself housed within the institute) and other researchers.Readers are encouraged (by a 'Your Comments' box beside each name) to offer comments on the appropriateness of otherwise of the etymologies (e.g.

"The manuscripts of the West Midlands have long been valuable resources for medieval English literary and book history. Research has focused on individual manuscripts or small groups. Surviving in large numbers and from well-documented regional centres of book production, they potentially offer a resource for investigation of the regional parameters of manuscript culture. Systematic manuscript geography has hitherto been inhibited by lack of research tools for large-scale comparative work.