Conventions and Abbreviations

An invaluable guide to the citation of canon law texts is supplied in James A. Brundage and Melodie H. Eichbauer, Medieval Canon Law, 2nd ed. (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023), 164–72. All references in the notes to printed editions of English bishops’ registers are given in the form Register of . . ., with full publication details provided in the bibliography of printed primary sources.

CCSL

Corpus Christianorum Series Latina

Councils and Synods

F. M. Powicke and Christopher R. Cheney, eds., Councils and Synods with other Documents Relating to the English Church, II: A.D. 1205–1313 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964).

d.a.c.

dictum ante capitulum [a saying of Gratian preceding a text quoted in the Decretum]

DMLBS

R. K. Ashdowne, D. R. Howlett, and R. E. Latham, eds., Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (Oxford: British Academy, 2018), available online at www.dmlbs.ox.ac.uk.

d.p.c.

dictum post capitulum [a saying of Gratian following a text quoted in the Decretum]

HMSO

His Majesty’s Stationary Office

LMA

London Metropolitan Archives

MED

Robert E. Lewis et al., eds., Middle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), available online at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary.

PL

Jacques-Paul Migne ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series latina, 221 vols. (Paris: Garniers frères, 1844–64).

s.v.

sub verbo [referring to dictionary entries]

TNA

The National Archives, Kew, London

x

appearing between two years, for example 1213x1217, indicates the date range within which a text can be dated