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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,
2015.
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| Collection: | Studies in the history of medieval religion ;
44. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.