Book Publication
One innovative feature of the Fine Rolls Project is the link it establishes between online and book publication. The same technology which generates the online text and indexes has been used to generate the texts and indexes for book publication with Boydell & Brewer. This dual form of publication gives an added guarantee to the survivability of the Project’s work. The two forms also serve different scholarly purposes. When one wishes to call up all the references to a place, person or subject over a period of years, then the online search facility is clearly the resource to use. When, however, one wishes to look up a particular reference and put it in context, the book version has clear advantages.
Within the life time of the project, three volumes of the Fine Rolls of Henry III have been published: Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. Volume I: 1216–1224, eds. Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & José Miguel Vieira (Woodbridge, 2007), Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. Volume II: 1224–1234, eds. Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & José Miguel Vieira (Woodbridge, 2008), and Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. Volume II: 1234–1242, eds. Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & José Miguel Vieira (Woodbridge, 2009). All these volumes were seen through the press by Tamara Lopez of DDH. A fourth volume (for the years 1242 to 1248) is still in preparation, but will be published in same manner as the preceeding three. Thereafter members of the Project team will take responsibility for the individual volumes which will complete the book publication.