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Book The Last Days of Peterborough Monastery

Download or read book The Last Days of Peterborough Monastery written by William Thomas Mellows and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the Valor, with transcripts, of the 1539 inventory, leases of monastic manors, pensions of officers and monks, warden's accounts for 1548-9, selections from court rolls of peterborough and Castor, 1538-51.

Book Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain

Download or read book Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain written by Ian Lancashire and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1800 entries this valuable reference work covers texts and records of dramatic activity for about 400 sites in Britain from Roman times to 1558. Grouped in sections – Texts listed chronologically; Records of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Other, classified by county, site, and date; and Doubtful Texts and Records – the entries summarize the contents of each record and give bibliographic information. Professor Lancashire presents a comprehensive survey of almost every type of literary and historical record, document, and work: civic, church, guild, monastic and royal court minutes and financial accounts; national records – Chancery, Parliament, Privy Council, Exchequer; royal proclamations; wills; local court rolls; jest-books, poems, prose treatises, sermons; archaeological remains, artifacts, illustrations. He brings together works in several normally unrelated fields: Roman theatre in Britain; medieval drama as such, including the Corpus Christi play and the moral play; court revels of the Tudors and of their predecessors in England and Scotland; and finally Latin and Greek drama as played in Oxford and Cambridge colleges. An introduction outlines the history of early drama in Britain. Appendixes include indexes of about 335 towns or patrons with travelling players, complete with rough itineraries; about 180 playwrights; and about 320 playing places and buildings. There are illustrations, four maps and a large general subject and name index

Book The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Download or read book The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII written by Steven J. Gunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII. Henry fought many wars throughout his reign, and this book explores how this came to dominate English culture and shape attitudes to the king and to national history, with people talking and reading about war, and spending money on weaponry and defence.

Book The Dissolution of the Monasteries

Download or read book The Dissolution of the Monasteries written by James G. Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years--exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of historical writing."--Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.

Book The Historian and Character

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  • Author : Dom David Knowles
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-30
  • ISBN : 9780521088411
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The Historian and Character written by Dom David Knowles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles.

Book The Court and Account Rolls of Peterborough Abbey

Download or read book The Court and Account Rolls of Peterborough Abbey written by Janet D. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey

Download or read book The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey written by Janet D. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manuscripts described in this handlist are the cartularies and registers of the former Benedictine abbey of Peterborough. By cartularies we mean copies of charters and other documents assembled together, usually in book-form, for 'the purposes of reference and information' and particularly concerned with the evidences of title. The registers, on the other hand, are books in which both incoming and outgiong correspondence and other administrative material was recorded during the incumbency of individual abbots.

Book Living and Dying in England 1100 1540   The Monastic Experience

Download or read book Living and Dying in England 1100 1540 The Monastic Experience written by Barbara Harvey and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-09-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities is also a broad exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages, by one of its most distinguished historians. - ;This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monastic communities. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century, by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their dependants, and their benefactors. She examines the charitable practices of the monks, their food and drink, their illnesses and their deaths, the number and conditions of employment of their servants, and their controversial practice of granting corrodies (pensions made up in large measure of benefits in kind). All these topics Miss Harvey considers in the context both of religious institutions in general, and of the secular world. Full of colour and interest, Living and Dying in England is an original and highly readable contribution to medieval history, and that of the early sixteenth century. - ;By one of the greatest authorities on the subject -

Book The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth  The history of Anglo Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest

Download or read book The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth The history of Anglo Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest written by Sharon Turner and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Ancient Abbeys  Monasteries     and Collegiate Churches

Download or read book The History of the Ancient Abbeys Monasteries and Collegiate Churches written by John Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry VII s New Men and the Making of Tudor England

Download or read book Henry VII s New Men and the Making of Tudor England written by Steven J. Gunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, examining how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status.

Book Monasticon Anglicanum   a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries   and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches   in England and Wales

Download or read book Monasticon Anglicanum a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales written by William Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln

Download or read book Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln written by Catholic Church. Diocese of Lincoln (England). Bishop (1420-1431 : Fleming) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of Visitations Held by William Alnwick

Download or read book Records of Visitations Held by William Alnwick written by Catholic Church. Diocese of Lincoln (England). Bishop (1436-1449 : Alnwick) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England

Download or read book The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England written by Martin Heale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis. The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over thousands of monks and canons, who swore to them vows of obedience; they were prominent figures in royal and church government; and collectively they controlled properties worth around double the Crown's annual ordinary income. Moreover, as guardians of regular observance and the primary interface between their monastery and the wider world, abbots and priors were pivotal to the effective functioning and well-being of the monastic order. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England provides the first detailed study of English male monastic superiors, exploring their evolving role and reputation between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Individual chapters examine the election and selection of late medieval monastic heads; the internal functions of the superior as the father of the community; the head of house as administrator; abbatial living standards and modes of display; monastic superiors' public role in service of the Church and Crown; their external relations and reputation; the interaction between monastic heads and the government in Henry VIII's England; the Dissolution of the monasteries; and the afterlives of abbots and priors following the suppression of their houses. This study of monastic leadership sheds much valuable light on the religious houses of late medieval and early Tudor England, including their spiritual life, administration, spending priorities, and their multi-faceted relations with the outside world. The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England also elucidates the crucial part played by monastic superiors in the dramatic events of the 1530s, when many heads surrendered their monasteries into the hands of Henry VIII.