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The Rites of Durham (Hardcover)
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The Rites of Durham (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
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First modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a
cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution. The importance of
the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the
eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition,
the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the
Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation
and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary,
William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to
previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed
commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against
other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and
its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the
cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those
described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light
on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate
understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices
contains a full edition of the related text which describes the
windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever
edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the
descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to
the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder
(1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving
manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form ofa paper roll. The
volume is completed by a comprehensive index.
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