Download or read book King s Lynn and the Fens written by John McNeill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen papers collected in this volume explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of King's Lynn and the Fens. They arise out of the Association's 2005 conference, and reflect its concern to engage with a broad range of monuments and themes, rather than focusing on a single major building. Within King's Lynn contributors consider the superb 14th-century enamelled drinking vessel popularly known as 'King John's Cup', the former Hanseatic 'Steelyard', the Red Mount Chapel, and the oak furnishings of the chapel of St Nicholas, while the pine standard chest from St Margaret's church is assessed in terms of the importation and distribution of similar chest across England as a whole.Outside King's Lynn there are articles on the historical manipulation of landscapes and buildings at Kirkstead, the 13th-century architecture and sculpture of Croyland Abbey, the 14th-century parish church of St Mary at Snettisham, the tomb of Sir Humphrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach, the overlooked medieval wall paintings in the Prior's Chapel at Castle Acre, and the late medieval stained glass at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen. Finally, there are three papers that look at particular aspects of the ways in which parish churches were financed, embellished and used across the region - in terms of late-12th and early-13th-century patronage, their 12th-century deployment of architectural sculpture, and the types and arrangements of choir stalls that appeared at a parochial level during the later Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Cambridge Ely and King s Lynn Road written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Lynn and the Fens written by John McNeill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- 'King John's Cup' -- The Red Mount Chapel, King's Lynn -- The Former Nave and Choir Oak Furnishings, and the West End and South Porch Doors, at the Chapel of St Nicholas, King's Lynn -- The Pine Standard Chest in St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn, and the Social and Economic Significance of the Type -- Trading Places: Counting Houses and the Hanseatic 'Steelyard' in King's Lynn -- Masters of Kirkstead: Hunting for Salvation -- 'Sadly mangled by the insulting claws of time': Thirteenth-Century Work at Croyland Abbey Church -- Snettisham Church -- The Tomb of Sir Humphrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach -- The Fourteenth-Century Wall-Paintings at Castle Acre Priory and Greyfriars, Great Yarmouth -- The Stained Glass of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk -- Romanesque Sculpture in Parish Churches of the Lincolnshire Fens -- Investment in Local Church Fabric in the Lincolnshire Fenlands c. 1150-c. 1210: Moulton and Whaplode -- Medieval Choir Stalls in Parish Churches -- Colour Plates
Download or read book The History of Lynn written by William Richards and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Lynn written by Paul Richards and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of King's Lynn
Download or read book The Fens written by Francis Pryor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.
Download or read book The History of Lynn written by William Richards and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Lynn Through Time written by Paul Richards and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Kings Lynn has changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by H. C. Darby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
Download or read book King s Lynn Offical Guide written by King's Lynn and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by Eric H. Ash and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a political, social, and environmental history of the many attempts to drain the Fens of eastern England during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both the early failures and the eventual successes. Fen drainage projects were supposed to transform hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands into dry farmland capable of growing grain and other crops, and also reform the sickly, backward fenland inhabitants into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. Fenlanders, however, viewed the drainage as a grave threat to their local landscape, economy, and way of life. At issue were two different understandings of the Fens, what they were and ought to be; the power to define the Fens in the present was the power to determine their future destiny. The drainage projects, and the many conflicts they incited, illustrate the ways in which politics, economics, and ecological thought intersected at a time when attitudes toward both the natural environment and the commonwealth were shifting. Promoted by the crown, endorsed by agricultural improvement advocates, undertaken by English and Dutch projectors, and opposed by fenland commoners, the drainage of the Fens provides a fascinating locus to study the process of state building in early modern England, and the violent popular resistance it sometimes provoked. In exploring the many challenges the English faced in re-conceiving and re-creating their Fens, this book addresses important themes of environmental, political, economic, social, and technological history, and reveals new dimensions of the evolution of early modern England into a modern, unitary, capitalist state"--
Download or read book Fen and Sea written by I.G. Simmons and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned environmental historian I.G. Simmons synthesizes detailed research into the landscape history of the coastal area of Lincolnshire between Boston and Skegness and its hinterland of Tofts, Low Grounds and Fen as far as the Wolds. With many excellent illustrations Simmons chronicles the ways in which this low coast, backed by a wet fen, has been managed to display a set of landscapes which have significant differences that contradict the common terminology of uniformity, calling the area ‘flat’ or referring to everywhere from Cleethorpes to King’s Lynn as ‘the fens’. These usually labeled ‘flat’ areas of East Lincolnshire between Mablethorpe and Boston are in fact a mosaic of subtly different landscapes. They have become that way largely due to the human influences derived from agriculture and industry. Between the beginning of Norman rule and the advent of pumped drainage, a number of significant changes took place. The author has accumulated information from Roman times until the beginnings of fossil-fuel powered drainage, bringing together both scientific data and documentary evidence including medieval and early modern documents from the National Archive, Lincolnshire Archives, Bethlem Hospital and Magdalen College, Oxford, to explore the little-known archives of regional interest.
Download or read book The history of Lynn To which is prefixed a copious account of Marshland Wisbeach and the Fens written by William Richards and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of Language Variation and Change written by J. K. Chambers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics
Download or read book Publications of the British Record Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens Called Bedford Level written by Samuel A. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Index to Norfolk Topography written by Walter Rye and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
