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Suffolk in the Middle Ages - Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book and Chronicles of Bury Abbey (Paperback, New edition)
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Suffolk in the Middle Ages - Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book and Chronicles of Bury Abbey (Paperback, New edition)
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Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the
coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds,
concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places -
Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The
modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one,
though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval
churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or
architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least
to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape
created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens
with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names,
as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton
Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and
discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from
its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author
acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to
re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the
presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been
challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at
Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming
of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the
Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the
posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in
an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's
carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous
walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never
been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was
the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's
apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal
establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five
hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold,
Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's
interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at,
often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his
concluding pages.
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