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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.
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