The Court of Chivalry and the Defence of Honour in England, 1633 - 1641
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Grant Holder:
Professor Richard Cust
The aim of this project is to calendar and make available to a wider public the records of the Court of Chivalry in Charles I's reign. The records contain a wealth of detail about the attitudes and assumptions of the nobles and gentry and the quarrels they engaged in to defend their honour. The analysis explores these attitudes and investigates the impact of the court on the social and political life of England ont he ev of civil war.
| Project start date: 2003-10 | Project end date: 2006-09 |
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| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Source material used:
About 80% of the source material comes from the records of the court held by the College of Arms, with most of the remiander from the court records at Arundel Castle, Sussex, together with other miscellanous material from the British Library, the Bodleian, Cambridge University Library and local record offices.
Digital resource created:
The ‘Search the Court Cases’ site makes available to scholars, researchers, local historians and genealogists details of the 738 surviving cases for the Court of Chivalry 1634-1640.
The search facilities allow investigation by person, place or subject.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Publications:
There is a companion volume to the web site, containing an account of the court’s history and summaries of the cases for this period:
R.P.Cust and A.J.Hopper (eds), Cases in the High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640 (Harleian Society, new series vol. 18, 2006)
R.P.Cust and A.J.Hopper (eds), Cases in the High Court of Chivalry, 1634-1640 (Harleian Society, new series vol. 18, 2006)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Birmingham |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| College of Arms in London |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Richard Cust, Dr Andrew Hopper |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Richard Cust |
| Title | The Court of Chivalry and the Defence of Honour in England, 1633 - 1641 |
| Record created | 2005-12-19 |
| Record updated | 2011-01-24 14:33 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2210 |
| Citation of record | Richard Cust: The Court of Chivalry and the Defence of Honour in England, 1633 - 1641. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2210> created: 2005-12-19, last updated 2011-01-24 14:33 |