154:(15 volumes). Editors were handsomely paid (Stubbs received, over the lifetime of the series, a total of some £6,600; Luard £6,432; and Riley £6,487). However, although editorial standards were often high, there was little supervision or opportunity for enforcing editorial quality, and little incentive for dilatory editors to bring their work to fruition; and as a result there were also less successful editions. In some quarters the project came to be regarded as providing an easy source of income for relatively little work.
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211:(who had been co-editor, but who withdrew for reasons of ill-health and subsequently fell out with Hall): Round described the eventual edition as "so replete with heresy and error as to lead astray for ever all students of its subject", and "probably the most misleading publication in the whole range of the Rolls series". The last volume to be commissioned was the
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The works published within the series were not sequentially numbered (although the individual parts of multi-volume works were numbered). This has presented bibliographers and librarians with a number of problems, and citations of volumes, and their arrangement within libraries, has therefore varied.
186:, as Deputy Keeper, introduced the practice of presenting free copies to reputable public and university libraries, with a label inserted stating that "in the event of the Library being broken up", the volume should be returned to the Controller of
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In the series as proposed, "preference was to be given in the first instance to such materials as were most scarce and valuable", each chronicle was to be edited as if the editor were engaged on an
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were included: most existing editions, published by scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries, were considered to be unsatisfactory. The scope was also extended to include legendary, folklore and
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Ireland and Scotland, such as
117:, who served as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records from 1861 to 1878. The first two volumes were published in February 1858: they were the first volume of Stevenson's own edition of the
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British and Irish historical materials and primary sources published as 99 works in 253 volumes between 1858 and 1911. Almost all the great medieval English
113:, and the scheme of 1857 was the direct outcome of this appeal. Alongside Romilly and Stevenson, another key figure in shaping the direction of the project in its early years was
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Many of the Rolls Series volumes were reprinted under licence in the 1960s and 1970s by the Kraus
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of the Public Record Office and published in three volumes in 1897. This became the occasion of a virulent and intemperate scholarly feud between Hall and
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British Government in accordance with a scheme submitted in 1857 by the Master of the Rolls, then Sir
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681:"IV: Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores; or,
322:in French; quasi-philosophical works like those of
921:Series "Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores"
901:
888:Series "Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores"
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378:documents, dealing for example with the lives of
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99:. A previous undertaking of the same kind, the
835:The Sources and Literature of English History
281:Materials for the History of St Thomas Becket
729:Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
523:Knowles 1961, p. 155 (Knowles 1963, p. 128).
780:Silver, Steven H. Talarico, Kathryn (ed.).
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372:De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ
332:Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft
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447:, etc. have a translation annexed.
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961:Texts of medieval Ireland in Latin
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946:Historiography of Ireland
941:Historiography of England
687:British National Archives
641:Red Book of the Exchequer
605:. London. pp. v–vi.
577:Knowles 1963, pp. 129–30.
541:Knowles 1963, pp. 102–17.
481:British National Archives
363:Red Book of the Exchequer
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504:Knighton's Chronicon
470:Numbering of volumes
384:Edward the Confessor
312:Robert of Gloucester
304:Guðbrandur Vigfússon
251:; the chronicles of
85:Public Record Office
971:Academic publishing
646:Historical Research
479:Sectional List 24,
273:Giraldus Cambrensis
115:Thomas Duffus Hardy
77:Master of the Rolls
976:Monographic series
697:Silver, Steven H.
464:Millwood, New York
320:Pierre de Langtoft
265:Walter of Coventry
195:Henry Maxwell Lyte
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