The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England

The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England
Author: Joseph Biancalana
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139430823

Fee tails were a heritable interest in land which was both inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to descendants of the original grantee. Biancalana's study considers the origins of the entail, and the development of a reliable legal mechanism for their destruction, the common recovery.

Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Gabriel Byng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1107157099

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.