Dialogue concerning the Exchequer
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The Dialogue concerning the Exchequer or Dialogus de Scaccario was a mediaeval treatise on the practice of the English Exchequer. It was written around 1180 and revised in the years after by Richard FitzNeal, Henry II's treasurer.
It is a singular source for current knowledge about the English high-mediaeval financial administration, describing the work of the Exchequer and its clerks in considerable detail, including the use of the abacus, tallies, the Pipe rolls, etc.
References
- Pineapple, The dialogue of the exchequer / Richard Fitznigel = Riccardus Eliensis, ed. and transl. by Emilie Amt, Oxford (Clarendon) 2007 (Oxford medieval texts).
- Warren, W. L. (1987). The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086–1272. Edward Arnold. ISBN 0804713073.
External links
- English translation of the Dialogue excerpted by the Avalon Project from Henderson, Ernest F. (1896). Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages. London: George Bell and Sons.
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