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Bury St. Edmunds - Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Economy (Paperback)
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Bury St. Edmunds - Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Economy (Paperback)
Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
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The abbey of Bury St. Edmund's was one of the richest and most
powerful of the monasteries of medieval England. The Libert of the
Eight and a Half Hundreds, over which the abbot exercised the
authority of Sherriff, covered all west Suffolk and survived as a
separate administrative district until the country reorganisation
of 1974. As its centre was an even more privileged area, the town
and suburbs of Bury St. Edmunds, which grew up to service the
abbey's worldly needs and remained under the abbot's absolute
control; today it survives as the prosperous borough of Bury St.
Edmunds. The abbey church itself was larger than Durham cathedral
and housed the shrine of St. Edmund, king and martyr, who had been
killed by the Danes in 870 when they invaded East Anglia, and whose
cult was the abbey's raison d'etre . In April 1994 the British
Archaeological Association held a four day conference at Culford
School, near Bury St. Edmunds, which was devoted to the study of
the abbey and town. Most of the conference papers are printed in
the preent Transactions, with the addition of three specially
commissioned papers. They cover a wide range of subjects and break
much new ground. There are papers on the abbey's architecture and
on the layout of the medieval town, studies on St. Edmund's shrine,
relics and cult, and on the abbey's administration and economic
history, including papers on the mint, which the abbot
administered, on the abbey's woodlands, and on its salterns in
Lincolnshire. An especial feature of the volume are the papers on
the abbey's manuscripts, comprising studies on their art,
palaeography, and bindings, and on the monastic library. The volume
ends with the catalogue prepared for the exhibitions held in
Cambridge for delegates to the conference, of Bury manuscripts
owned by a number of Cambridge colleges and by Cambridge University
Library. In all, these transactions make an important contribution
to the study of medieval Bury St. Edmunds and will no doubt
stimulate further research.
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