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Title first published in 2003. Westminster Abbey occupies a unique
position in the religious and royal landscape of the United Kingdom
and Commonwealth. As the scene of coronations and other great
public occasions, it has been the continuing focus of the nation's
religious life for half the Christian era. Yet the building itself
would not have survived the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation
had the institution running it not been itself 'reformed' from
monastery into collegiate church. These nine studies discuss ways
in which Westminster's new corporate structure evolved in the first
century of its existence, and look at some of the personalities who
played a part in that process. New research, much of it in the
Abbey's own rich archive, opens up previously unseen views of this
great church's internal affairs, its relationship with the Crown,
and its place in its own locality.
Title first published in 2003. Westminster Abbey occupies a unique
position in the religious and royal landscape of the United Kingdom
and Commonwealth. As the scene of coronations and other great
public occasions, it has been the continuing focus of the nation's
religious life for half the Christian era. Yet the building itself
would not have survived the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation
had the institution running it not been itself 'reformed' from
monastery into collegiate church. These nine studies discuss ways
in which Westminster's new corporate structure evolved in the first
century of its existence, and look at some of the personalities who
played a part in that process. New research, much of it in the
Abbey's own rich archive, opens up previously unseen views of this
great church's internal affairs, its relationship with the Crown,
and its place in its own locality.
Original documents relating to minor foundation illustrate lower
levels of local society and government of the town. The Benedictine
priory of St Bartholomew outside Sudbury was a cell of Westminster
Abbey founded in the reign of Henry I by Wulfric the moneyer.
Although a small and poorly-endowed establishment, it has
nevertheless, and unusually, left over 130 original documents in
the muniments at Westminster, enabling this volume in the Suffolk
Charters series to be the first to be devoted to a group of
original documents rather than medieval transcriptions. Dating
mostly from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the
collection illustrates the lower levels of local society and the
government of the town, providing a wealth of evidence for trades
and occupations, place names and personal names in the Sudbury
area, including the earliest known reeves and mayors of Sudbury. Of
particular interest are a late-fourteenth century inventory of the
priory which brings alive the physical surroundings of the monks,
and the quantities of seals attached to the charters, including an
unusual number of women's seals. RICHARD MORTIMERhas been Keeper of
the Muniments, Westminster Abbey, since 1986; he has edited four
previous volumes in the Suffolk Charters series.
The life and cult of Edward the Confessor are here fully
reappraised. The millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth
presents an appropriate occasion for a full-scale, up-to-date
reassessment of his life, reign and cult, a reappraisal which is
provided in the essays here. After an introduction to the many
views of Edward's life, and a reinterpretation of the development
of his cult, the volume considers his childhood in England and its
influence upon his later life; the time he spent in Normandy and
the relationships that developed there; and his later life,
including an examination of the role played by Edith, his queen.
There is also a particular focus upon Westminster Abbey, and the
major new discoveries which have recently been made there.
Incorporating both broad surveys and the fruits of detailed new
work, this book is essential reading for all those interested in
late Saxon and Norman England. CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD MORTIMER,
SIMON KEYNES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS,STEPHEN BAXTER, PAULINE STAFFORD,
ERIC FERNIE, WARWICK RODWELL, RICHARD GEM, EDINA BOZOKY
Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe,10c-15c,
from the practical (houses, armour) to the intellectual [conceptof
holy war, loyalty, etc.]. The Strawberry Hill conferences on
medieval knighthood, from which these volumes spring, aim to bring
together historians and literary scholars whose interests focus on
medieval chivalry, to bridge the gulf between the two areas of
specialisation and explore matters of common interest. Eight papers
cover a wide area, both territorially and chronologically,but
common themes emerge. One group of essays deals with the
embellishments of lordship, both architectural and heraldic,
studying residences and also developments in armour. A second group
concerns ideals which motivated the aristocracy of western Europe,
from the late 10th to the 15th centuries: romances, the Peace
movement ofAquitaine, holy war, and loyalty; concentration on
rationalism and free will in thewritings of the cultural circle
which revolved around Sir John Fastolfis identified as an important
element in the development of the EnglishRenaissance. Professor
CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL teaches in the Department of History,
University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer in French at
Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: ADRIAN AILES,
JEFFREY ASHCROFT, CHARLES COULSON,JONATHAN HUGHES, JANE MARTINDALE,
PETER NOBLE, MATTHEW STRICKLAND,ANN WILLIAMS.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
The first two volumes make available all the existing
pre-Reformation charter material, the third consists of an
introduction and index. Taken together the three volumes illuminate
the social and economic as well as the ecclesiastical organisation
of the Suffolk-Essex border in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
This volume tells the complete story of the Westminster Abbey
chapter house, which ranks as one of the spectacular achievements
of European Gothic art and architecture; and that is precisely what
its builder, King Henry III, intended. Begun in the mid-1240s, and
completed within a decade, its pre-eminence was recognized in its
own day, when the chronicler Matthew Paris described Westminster as
having 'a chapter house beyond compare'. Papers by leading scholars
in the field of medieval art and architecture reveal the reasons
for the construction of the chapter house and trace the possible
influences upon the master mason in charge of the project. The
subsequent history of the structure is revealed as it evolved from
a meeting place of the king's Great Court, the predecessor of the
English Parliament, and as a royal treasury into a repository for
government archives after the Dissolution, home to the Public
Record Office until the late 1850s, and its subsequent restoration
at the hands of Sir George Gilbert Scott. Now under the care of
English Heritage, the chapter house has just been cleaned and
restored again, leading to the spectacular light-filled building
that we see today, to which full justice is done by this richly
illustrated book, filled with pictures of the architectural and
sculptural details, the medieval tilework and the wall painting
that justify the motto inscribed in the chapter house floor: 'as
the rose is the flower of flowers, so is this the house of houses'.
The first two volumes make available all the existing
pre-Reformation charter material, the third consists of an
introduction and index. Taken together the three volumes illuminate
the social and economic as well as the ecclesiastical organisation
of the Suffolk-Essex border in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
Covers aspects of the history of both Leiston Abbey and Butley
Priory but is chiefly concerned with Leiston as the better
documented and less investigated of the two. Butley Priory was a
house of Augustinian canons, Leiston Abbey a foundation for
Premonstratensian canons. This volume is largely an edition of the
Leiston cartulary and although the introduction covers aspects of
the history of both houses, it is chiefly concerned with Leiston as
the better documented and less investigated of the two.
Three volumes illuminating the social, economic and ecclesiastical
organisation of the Suffolk-Essex border in the 12th and 13th
centuries. [East Anglian]Three volumes illuminating the social,
economic and ecclesiastical organisation of the Suffolk-Essex
border in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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