The Church and Vale of Evesham, 700-1215 : Lordship, landscape and prayer /

In c.701, a minster was founded in the lower Avon Valley on a deserted promontory called Evesham. Over the next five hundred years it became a Benedictine abbey and turned the Vale of Evesham into a federation of Christian communities. A landscape of scattered farms grew into one of open fields and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cox, D. C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2015.
Series:Studies in the history of medieval religion ; 44.
Subjects:
476-1492
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilisation médiévale.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Evesham, Vale of (England) > History.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
Evesham, Vallée d' (Angleterre) > Histoire.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492.
England > Vale of Evesham.
Europe.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. From minster to abbey (701-1078) ; Æthelred and Ecgwine
  • A land of promise
  • A waiting people
  • Ecgwine and the first abbots
  • Decay and revival
  • On the defensive
  • Abbot Ælfweard and King Cnut
  • Abbot Manni, the town, and the Vale
  • Abbot Æthelwig under English and Norman rule
  • Part II. Abbot Walter (1078-1104) ; A new regime
  • God's work
  • The estates under threat
  • Protecting the future
  • Part III. Twelfth-century themes (1104-1215) ; Interested parties
  • Order and governance
  • Economic realities
  • Investment
  • Worship
  • Learning and writing
  • Religious buildings
  • Collapse and renewal
  • Afterword
  • Appendix. The abbots of Evesham to 1215.

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