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In this work, Antonia Gransden offers a comprehensive critical
survey of historical writing and historiographical achievements in
mid-6th century through early 16th century England. While studying
an extensive variety of primary sources--including chronicles,
annals, secular and sacred biographers and monographs on local
histories--these volumes also provide a critical evaluation of
secondary sources and historiographical development.
Discussions of important figures such as Bede, William Malmesbury
and Matthew Paris include a critical examination of their careers
and work, and detail the influences and traditions which shaped
each writer's attitudes. This standard reference work for English
history has been updated with textual corrections and includes an
extensive bibliography as well as detailed references.
The unique Japanese banking system has contributed greatly to
Japan's post-war economic advance by investing aggressively in
industry and by supporting close government-business relations. The
banking sector might not have come to assume such a significant
role, however, had American efforts to reform Japanese finance
during the Occupation (1945-52) been successful. How Japan's
banking system maintained continuity of development and avoided the
occupiers' attempts at "democratisation" and "Americanisation" is
the subject of this book. It explores why the Americans were
committed to reform, the reasons they failed and how important the
maintenance of the financial status quo was to the subsequent
development of Japan's "miracle" economy.
The unique Japanese banking system has contributed greatly to
Japan's post-war economic advance by investing aggressively in
industry and by supporting close government-business relations. The
banking sector might not have come to assume such a significant
role, however, had American efforts to reform Japanese finance
during the Occupation (1945-52) been successful. How Japan's
banking system maintained continuity of development and avoided the
occupiers' attempts at "democratisation" and "Americanisation" is
the subject of this book. It explores why the Americans were
committed to reform, the reasons they failed and how important the
maintenance of the financial status quo was to the subsequent
development of Japan's "miracle" economy.
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.
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.
The customary, edited here from British Library harley 1005, was
composed at Bury St Edmunds in the first half of the 13th century
(probably after 1234); its main concern is with the duties of the
abbot and the obedientiaries, but it also throws much light on the
daily duties of a 13th-century Bury monk. The edition is provided
with an extensive historical introduction, and a number of
treatises relevant to the customary and printed in appendices.
St Edmund's Abbey was one of the most highly privileged and
wealthiest religious houses in medieval England, one closely
involved with the central government; its history is an integral
part of English history. This book (the first of two volumes)
offers a magisterial and comprehensive account of the Abbey during
the thirteenth century, based primarily on evidence in the abbey's
records (over 40 registers survive). The careers of the abbots,
beginning with the great Samson, provide the chronological
structure; separate chapters study various aspects of their rule,
such as their relations with the convent, the abbey's internal and
external administration and its relations with its tenants and
neighbours, with the king and the central government. Chapters are
also devoted to the monks' religious, cultural and intellectual
life, to their writings, book collection and archives. Appendices
focus on the mid-thirteenth century accounts which give a unique
and detailed picture of the organisation and economy of St Edmunds'
estates in West Suffolk, and on the abbey's watermills and
windmills. Professor ANTONIA GRANSDEN is former Reader at the
University of Nottingham.
Thirteenth-Century England IIIcontinues the series which began in
1986 with the publication of the first volume of the biannual
Newcastle upon Tyne conferences on thirteenth-century England.
Important studies of aspects of English society and politics open
up new areas of research and re-examine standard interpretations.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, D.W. BURTON, P.H. CULLUM, R.B. DOBSON,
ELIZABETH GEMMILL, P.J.P. GOLDBERG, ANTONIA GRANSDEN, LINDY GRANT,
MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ROBERT C. STACEY, R.L.STOREY, ROBIN STUDD,
CHRISTOPHER WILSON.
In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the
virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and
habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the
greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to
the sixteenth century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed
by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble
fourteenth-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add
other than a few local references.
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