Author: Mark BaileyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843835290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.
Medieval Suffolk
Author: Mark BaileyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843835290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this book, Mark Bailey provides a comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.
Suffolk in the Middle Ages
Author: Norman ScarfePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield. The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred'lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrusivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which alsoled to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretativeskills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.
Medieval Suffolk
Author: Mark BaileyPublisher: Hambledon Press
ISBN: 9781852855086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Medieval Lowestoft
Author: David ButcherPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A history of the development of Lowestoft from its origins to the flourishing medieval town it became.
The Medieval Clothier
Author: John S. LeePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783273178
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.
Keeping the Peace in Medieval Suffolk
Author: Nicholas R. AmorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781838122300
Category : Homicide
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Little History of Suffolk
Author: Sarah E. DoigPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750990147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
If we scratch beneath the surface of the Suffolk we know today, there are numerous surprising, touching and alarming tales which bring to life the rich history of this county. The Little History of Suffolk reveals the devastating effect of the dissolution of the monasteries, the decline of the once-booming cloth trade, drastic erosion of the coastline, and the disappearance of large country houses and estates. Here you will also find the rise of the chic Victorian seaside resorts, the captains of the brewing and iron industries who put Suffolk firmly on the post-industrial revolution map, and the key wartime role the county played over many centuries. No corner of Suffolk is left unturned in this small book with a huge punch.
Medieval Suffolk
Author: Mark BaileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781843833154
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Suffolk and Norfolk
Author: Montague Rhodes JamesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108018068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A guide to many medieval historical places of interest in Norfolk and Suffolk, first published in 1930.
Shaping Medieval Markets
Author: Jessica DijkmanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004201483
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In the late Middle Ages the county of Holland experienced a process of uncommonly rapid commercialisation. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders this book examines how the institutions that shaped commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development.