Abstract
Ecclesiastical historians have been well served by publication of original material: Concilia I and II; Records of Convocation (in progress) for the later medieval period and beyond; and English Episcopal Acta for the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, the first volume of which was edited in 1980 by David Smith of the Borthwick Institute, whose vade-mecum, Guide to Episcopal Registers, appeared the following year. The present well-edited volume, dedicated to the Borthwick staff, constitutes the third in the Durham series, a proliferation due to the exceptional size of the archive. It embraces four episcopates, those of two secular bishops and two Benedictines—confusingly both Roberts: Stichill (1260–74) and of Holy Island (1274–83). Stichill's election was technically uncanonical (Gibbs and Lang, Bishops and Reform, p. 63 n.7), not being in accord with Lateran IV c.24, incorporated (1234) in Extra 1.6. c.42 Quia propter, possibly indicative of Durham's remoteness or...
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