Doris Mary Stenton

Doris Mary Stenton, even Lady Stenton, ( born August 27, 1894 in Reading, Berkshire, † December 29, 1971 Ibid, Birth Name: Doris Mary Parsons ) was a British medieval historian.

Life

She was the daughter of a cabinet maker, went to Reading to school and from 1912 to the University of Reading (then University College ), where she met the medieval historian and first professor of history at Reading Frank Merry Stenton, whom she married in 1919. She worked after her marriage as a historian closely with him. In 1916 she had graduated with top grades in Reading, 1917 Assistant Lecturer was and began to work on source editions, the first medieval statutes of the chapter of the cathedral of Lincoln at the insistence of the Domkapitulars Charles Wilmer Foster Cathedral. In 1923 she was secretary of the Pipe Roll Society (which until her official retirement in 1961 remained ) and was out there another source volumes. The Company issued the Pipe Rolls (medieval tax documents from the Public Record Office ) and was founded in 1883, but in the meantime fallen asleep before the couple Stenton, canon Foster and Professor Leonard Victor Davies Owen and Henry Maxwell Lyte, Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office, was revived. Doris Stenton was there several decades the driving force of society. In addition, they also issued medieval legal documents for the Selden Society. In 1952 she was Senior Lecturer in Reading and Reader in 1955.

In 1948 she was awarded the Doctor of Letters in Reading and in 1953 she became a member of the British Academy. She was honorary doctorates from the universities of Glasgow ( 1958) and Oxford ( 1968) and Honorary Fellow of St Hilda 's College, Oxford.

After the death of her husband Frank Stenton she gave out his Collected Essays and 3rd edition ( Anglo - Saxon England, 1971) of the standard work on the Anglo-Saxon England. From it the band Early Middle Ages the Pelican History of England dates from 1951

She is buried in Nottinghamshire beside her husband in Halloughton.

Writings

  • English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307), Pelican History of England, Volume 3, Penguin Books 1951, 4th edition 1965
  • English Justice Between The Norman Conquest and the Great Charter 1066-1215: the Jayne Lectures for 1963, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society 1964
  • The English Woman in History, Allen and Unwin / Macmillan, 1957
  • After Runnymede: Magna carta in the Middle Ages, University of Virginia Press 1965
  • King John and the courts of justice, Raleigh Lecture, British Academy 1958

Editorship of sources:

  • The Earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, A.D. 1202-1209, Lincoln Record Society, Volume 22, 1926
  • Rolls of the Justices of the Eyre for Lincolnshire, 1218-19 and Worcestershire, 1221, Selden Society, Volume 53, London: Quaritch 1934
  • Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Yorkshire in 3 Henry III, Selden Society 1937
  • Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire (recte Shropshire ), 1221, 1222, Selden Society 1940
  • Pleas before the King or his Justices, 1198-1202, 4 volumes, London: Quaritch 1952-1967
  • The earliest Northamptonshire assize rolls, A.D. 1202 and 1203, Northamptonshire Record Society, Lincoln and London 1930
  • The great roll of the pipe for the second- tenth year of the reign of King Richard the First, Michaelmas 1190-1198 (Pipe Roll 36-44 ), 8 volumes, Pipe Roll Society, London: JW Ruddock 1925-1932
  • With Lewis C. Loyd: Sir Christopher Hatton 's Book of Seals, 1950

Margaret Gelling was 1953/54, the out Place -names of Oxfordshire ( Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes ) based material that Doris Mary Stenton collected

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