Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey: Volume 2

Edited by Thomas Arnold

ISBN 10: 1108053319 / ISBN 13: 9781108053310

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2012

494 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.30 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. N° de réf. du vendeur __1108053319

Synopsis :

This three-volume collection (1890–6) of medieval documents relating to Bury St Edmunds is valuable for ecclesiastical and civic history.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Bury St Edmunds possessed one of the wealthiest abbeys in England. This three-volume collection of Latin documents relating to the abbey was edited by Thomas Arnold (1823–1900) and published between 1890 and 1896. Volume 2 contains a chronicle terminating in 1212, accounts of building works, narratives of abbatial elections in 1215, 1257 and 1302, and an early thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman metrical biography of St Edmund by Denis Pyramus, a monk of the abbey. There is also an account of the expulsion of the Franciscans from Bury by the Benedictines in 1257 and 1263. More serious were the ongoing disputes between the abbey and town that led to the Great Riot of 1327, in which the abbey was sacked, the abbot deported, and monks and civilians killed in a succession of attacks throughout the year. The settlement of 1331 is included in the appendix, and English side-notes are provided throughout.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey: Volume 2
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Brand New