Doris Mary Stenton

Doris Mary Stenton , also Lady Stenton, (born August 27, 1894 in Reading , Berkshire ; † December 29, 1971 ibid, maiden name: Doris Mary Parsons) was a British medieval historian.

Life

She was the daughter of a cabinet maker, went to school in Reading and from 1912 to the University of Reading (then University College), where she also met Frank Merry Stenton , a medieval historian and first history professor in Reading , whom she married in 1919. After their marriage, she also worked closely with him as a historian. She graduated from Reading in 1916, became Assistant Lecturer in 1917, and began work on source editions, first the medieval statutes of the Lincoln Cathedral Chapter at the urging of Charles Wilmer Foster, the Chapter of the Cathedral. In 1923 she became secretary of the Pipe Roll Society (which she remained until her official retirement in 1961) and edited further source volumes there. The company issued the Pipe Rolls (medieval tax documents, from the Public Record Office ) and was founded in 1883, but fell asleep in the meantime , before being used by the Stentons, Canon Foster and Professor Leonard Victor Davies Owen and Henry Maxwell Lyte, Deputy Keepers of the Public Record Office, revived. Doris Stenton was the driving force of society for several decades. She also edited medieval legal documents for the Selden Society . In 1952 she became Senior Lecturer in Reading and in 1955 Reader.

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

After the death of her husband Frank Stenton, she published his collected essays and the 3rd edition ( Anglo-Saxon England , 1971) of his standard work on Anglo-Saxon England. She wrote the volume Early Middle Ages of the Pelican History of England from 1951

She is buried next to her husband in Halloughton , Nottinghamshire .

Fonts

• 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

Editing of sources:

• The Earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, AD 1202-1209 , Lincoln Record Society, Vol. 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, AD 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 published the Place-names of Oxfordshire (Cambridge University Press, 2 volumes) in 1953/54 , based on the material that Doris Mary Stenton collected.

literature

• Kathleen Major, Doris Mary Stenton , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
• Kathleen Major: Doris Mary Stenton, 1894–1971 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 58 , 1973, p. 525-535 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
• Patricia M. Barnes, CF Slade (Editor): A Medieval Miscellany for Doris Mary Stenton , Publications of the Pipe Roll Society NS, Volume 36 (for 1960), London, 1962
• Liber Memorialis Doris Mary Stenton, Pipe Roll Society, 1976

Web links

• Oxford DNB
• Publications by Doris Mary Stenton in the Opac der Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Her husband was ennobled in 1948