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TEXT, VISUALISATION AND POLITICS: LONDON, 1150–1250*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2008

Derek Keene
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Abstract

Focusing on London, the paper discusses the interaction between theoretical, descriptive and quasi-historical writing about cities, a growing capacity to visualise city landscape and activities, and forms of graphic representation that drew on those ideas. Reading this interplay as a political space, the paper explores the structure, content and purposes of the ‘London Collection’ of national laws, pseudo-laws and city customs put together in London at about the time of Magna Carta. Though no more than a preliminary investigation, the exercise reveals the extent to which London interests, especially with regard to the politics of international trade, the ‘law of London’, earlier episodes of communal activism and a sense of London's historic destiny within that of the nation pervade the collection as a whole. This casts some doubt on the supposed antiquity of some of the London laws in the collection, which may well have been adjusted for the occasion.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 18 , December 2008 , pp. 69 - 99
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2008

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I am grateful to John Gillingham, Lindy Grant, Judith Green, Bruce O'Brien, Richard Sharpe and Susan Reynolds for conversations which have helped shaped my thinking for this paper.

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33 For a good photograph of an impression of the obverse and a note by T. A. Heslop on the style of the seal, see Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200–1400, ed. J. Alexander and P. Binski (1987), 273, no. 193. For a photograph of an impression of the reverse, see St Paul's, ed. Keene et al., Fig. 11. For the citizens' commemoration of St Thomas: D. Keene and V. Harding, Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire, i: Cheapside (Cambridge, 1987), no. 105/18.

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36 The first part is now Manchester, the John Rylands University Library, Rylands Latin MS 155, and the second, BL, Add. MS 14252. See F. Liebermann, Über die Leges Anglorum saeculo xiii ineunte Londiniis collectae (Halle, 1894), and idem, ‘A Contemporary Manuscript of the Leges Anglorum Londiniis collectae’, English Historical Review, 28 (1913), 732–45. A selection of the London material in Add. MS 14252 is printed and discussed in M. Bateson, ‘A London Municipal Collection of the Reign of John’, English Historical Review, 17 (1902), 480–511, 707–30, which also identifies the remaining materials previously printed elsewhere from this or later MSS. The London laws, customs and memoranda from the collection are more comprehensively printed and described in M. Weinbaum, London unter Eduard I. und II. (2 vols., Stuttgart, 1933), ii, 5–91, which remains the most convenient and accurate version of that material so far published. The way in which the collection, for some of its contents, appears to have drawn on earlier and perhaps more accurate, but no longer surviving, transcripts is discussed in Brooke et al., ‘Henry I's charter’. Recent discussions of aspects of the collection are: P. Wormald, ‘“Quadripartitus’”, in Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir John Holt, ed. G. Garnet and J. Hudson (Cambridge, 1994), 111–47; J. Gillingham, ‘Stupor mundi: 1204 et un obituaire de Richard Coeur de Lion depuis longtemps tombé dans l'oubli’, in Plantagenêts et Capétiens: confrontations et héritages, ed. M. Aurell and N.-Y. Tonnerre (Turnhout, 2006), 397–411. The quires of the MSS are briefly described in N. N. R. Ker, ‘Liber Custumarum and Other Manuscripts Formerly at the Guildhall’, The Guildhall Miscellany 1.3 (1954), 37–45, at 37.

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40 Bateson, ‘Municipal Collection’, 483–6; Weinbaum, London, ii, 10–17. The full significance of these additions is not clear. One, referring back to a dispute in the 1130s, concerns the rights of the lord of Baynard's Castle over the water of the Thames; the other, interpreted by Bateson and Weinbaum as a record of civic property, is in fact an extract from an early thirteenth-century rental of property belonging to Canterbury Cathedral Priory on the London waterfront to the west of Queenhithe (see D. Keene and V. Harding, A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire (London Record Society, 22, 1985), 72). A concern with the river is perhaps the connection between them.

41 Gillingham, ‘Stupor mundi’, 399–400, summarises views on this purpose. See also J. C. Holt, Magna Carta (Cambridge, 1992), 20, 55–7, 93–5, and Wormald, ‘“Quadripartitus’”.

42 R. Hanna, London Literature (Cambridge, 2005), 56–8, 70–2, 84–9; Hanna mistranslates a few passages.

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44 These London additions are identified in Liebermann's edition of the laws: Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, ed. F. Leibermann (3 vols., Halle, 1903–16), i, 627–70, with these references to Arthur at 655, 659. The text in Gesetze should be read in conjunction with Liebermann, ‘Contemporary Manuscript’.

45 Gillingham, ‘Stupor mundi’, 400–8. Gillingham is mistaken in the statement (at 410–11) that the collection's favour towards King Richard is further indicated by its inclusion of the text of Richard's charter concerning Portsmouth issued in 1194: the text is not included, although, for different reasons, a copy forms part of later London collections.

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