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The life and career of Jocelin of Wells examined, with a particular
emphasis on his role in the reconstruction of the Cathedral and
Bishop's Palace. Jocelin, bishop of Wells [d. 1242], is an iconic
figure in his native city; but his career as courtier and statesman
moved far beyond the west country. From a family network which had
produced bishops over several generations, heplayed a major role in
a developing diocese and mother church, and in the growth of towns,
fairs and markets in early thirteenth-century Somerset. He had a
crucial influence on the completion of what was to become Wells
Cathedral,and on the Bishop's Palace beside it. The essays in this
volume look at Jocelin's life and career from a variety of
perspectives, with a particular focus on his involvement in the
building work to complete the Cathedral, aswell as the erection of
the earliest part of the Bishop's Palace. Architectural,
archaeological and even botanical approaches are used to explain
the curious physical nature of the Palace site, the significance of
the work still standing there from Jocelin's time, and the possible
sites of other contemporary work. A final chapter studies the
design and purpose of Robert Burnell's additions to Jocelin's work.
Contributors: Robert Dunning, NicholasVincent, Jane Sayers, Diana
Greenway, Sethina Watson, Tim Tatton-Brown, Jerry Sampson, Alex
Turner, Christopher Gerrard, Keith Wilkinson, Mark Horton, David J.
Hill, Matthew Reeve.
'In the year of grace 1066, the Lord, the ruler, brought to
fulfilment what He had long planned for the English people: He
delivered them up to be destroyed by the violent and cunning Norman
race.' Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most
exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest
and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English
kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and
the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts pf the kings who
reigned during his lifetime - William II, Henry I, and Stephen -
contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how
promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of
disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and
vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and
murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the
waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana
Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been
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The essays in this book have as their theme Tradition and Change.
They view institutions, groups and individuals responding and
adjusting to changes in their world, whether in religious
discipline or in the needs of government. They also explore the
continuity of traditions in both ecclesiastical and secular society
and trace how changes themselves crystallize into the traditions of
the future. The topics chosen to illustrate this general theme
reflect the wide interests of the honorand, whose publications,
including her edition of the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic
Vitalis, have illuminated the twin cultures of England and Normandy
and their joint influence on European society in the eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
This lively narrative, written by a monk, relates the history of the abbey of Saffron Walden from its foundation around 1136 to the year 1203. Its characters include the English kings, the earls of Essex, and other local landowners, large and small, as well as the monks and other ecclesiastics. Its interest extends far beyond the local: the editors' introduction and notes establish the chronicle's position as a valuable historical source.
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