The Charters of Stanton, Suffolk, c.1215-1678 (Hardcover, New)

Edition of local documents sheds revealing light on medieval village life. The village of Stanton, some nine miles north-east of Bury St Edmunds, is in many ways a typical Suffolk village. What is not so typical is the survival of a considerable and largely coherent collection of charters and similar texts, which together provide a rich and detailed picture of aspects of life in this village from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Most of the documents were written for, or involved, local peasants and farmers, and illustrate their own dealings with each other, with their lords (most importantly the nearby abbey of Bury), together with the involvement of prominent outsiders in the life of the village. The charters are therefore documents of greatinterest for the social and economic history of Suffolk, and of East Anglia more broadly, for the insights they provide into the lives of peasants and village people, into farming and other kinds of economic activity, into the operation of lordship and into the village's connection with the broader world. They present a microcosm of medieval and early modern Suffolk life, and typify kinds of activity that would have involved individuals across the countyand beyond. This volume, a rich resource for historians, provides an edited collection, accompanied by introduction, notes and apparatus.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Suffolk Charters
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	David P Dymond
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	320
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84383-491-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
LSN:	1-84383-491-X
Barcode:	9781843834915

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