English Episcopal Acta XXI: Norwich, 1215-1243.(Book Review)

ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Oxford : Oxford U.P., 2001; pp. lxxiii + 219. 45 [pounds sterling]).

The Norwich volume (No. XXI) is a major addition to this important series. In it are published the surviving acts of three, very different, bishops: Pandulph Verraccio, Thomas Blundeville, and William Raleigh--the first a papal legate, the second an administrator of East Anglian origin, the third a very eminent judge. The edition is an admirable one, with full and learned commentaries and introduction. A valuable feature is an appendix retailing references to acts of the bishops. Another appendix publishes eleven acts, previously missed, of earlier bishops. The present …