Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1280544910
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9781280544910
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184615068X
,
9781846150685
Content:
East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England. Archaeological evidence abounds: burial mounds, castles, great churches deriving from the wealth created by sheep, yeoman farmhouses, and market towns of eighteenth-century elegance. Behind these visible manifestations of the march of centuries lie particular histories, and these seventeen studies from the region's best scholars reveal some of those jigsaw puzzles of time, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by way of monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region, and at the same time honour Norman Scarfe, whose own studies have played a notable part in the interpretation of East Anglia's history.; Contributors JOHN BLATCHLY, JAMES CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, CAROLE RAWCLIFFE, DAVID DYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID MacCULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD
Note:
Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Norman Scarfe: An Appreciation; Domesday Herrings; Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia; 'On the Threshold of Eternity': Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries; The Parson's Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking?; Suffolk Churches in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of Wills; Sir John Fastolf and the Land Market; Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland; A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology?; Concept and Compromise; Shrubland before Barry; Garden Canals in Suffolk.
Language:
English
