Charters Of St Paul S London

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St Paul's was the principal church of London from its foundation in A. D. 604. This volume is an edition of all the surviving documentary material from St Paul's from the seventh century to 1066, with expert analysis and commentary on the history of the bishops and the cathedral community within the city and diocese, considered against the background of London's history during this period. The medieval archives of St Paul's suffered at times from neglect, and as a result the majority of the Anglo-Saxon charters of the bishop and chapter are preserved only as fragments in the notebooks of two seventeenth-century scholars who studied a crucial manuscript before it disappeared at the time of the Commonwealth. These excerpts are here edited with full diplomatic and historical commentary, which makes it possible to resurrect to some extent the full documents. The edition of the charters is prefaced by an extended introduction which provides an important new synthesis of the history of London and St Paul's in the Anglo-Saxon period, complete with an extensive bibliography.

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Genre : History
Author : S.E Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2004-12-23
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0197262996


The Town Its Memorable Characters And Events St Paul S To St James S

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Genre : London (England)
Author : Leigh Hunt
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Release : 1848
File : 346 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCD:31175035531931


Myth Rulership Church And Charters

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For more than forty years Nicholas Brooks has been at the forefront of research into early medieval Britain. In order to honour the achievements of one of the leading figures in Anglo-Saxon studies, this volume brings together essays by an internationally renowned group of scholars on four themes that the honorand has made his own: myths, rulership, church and charters. Myth and rulership are addressed in articles on the early history of Wessex, Æthelflæd of Mercia and the battle of Brunanburh; contributions concerned with charters explore the means for locating those hitherto lost, the use of charters in the study of place-names, their role as instruments of agricultural improvement, and the reasons for the decline in their output immediately after the Norman Conquest. Nicholas Brooks's long-standing interest in the church of Canterbury is reflected in articles on the Kentish minster of Reculver, which became a dependency of the church of Canterbury, on the role of early tenth-century archbishops in developing coronation ritual, and on the presentation of Archbishop Dunstan as a prophet. Other contributions provide case studies of saints' cults with regional and international dimensions, examining a mass for St Birinus and dedications to St Clement, while several contributions take a wider perspective, looking at later interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon past, both in the Anglo-Norman and more modern periods. This stimulating and wide-ranging collection will be welcomed by the many readers who have benefited from Nicholas Brooks's own work, or who have an interest in the Anglo-Saxon past more generally. It is an outstanding contribution to early medieval studies.

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Genre : History
Author : Andrew Wareham
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-03-02
File : 306 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351916066


Dean John Colet Of St Paul S

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This is an important and original biography of John Colet, the leading humanist theologian in early Tudor England and the founder of St Paul's School in London. Taken at face value, the facts of John Colet's life, spanning the late 15th and early 16th centuries, appear to portray a successful, humanist clerical reformer, active in London on the eve of the English Reformation. In fact, as a cleric, John Colet was neither successful nor a reformer, nor were the reforms he attempted particularly welcome. His greatest achievement, and lasting legacy, was the foundation of his school. Thus, in the sphere of Christian humanist education, Colet was a success. However, in all his dealings, Colet considered the spiritual life to be of paramount importance and his ultimate aim was the deification of sinful humanity, not just for a few exceptional individuals, but for the entire Church. In this respect, Colet's ecclesiastical vision did not effect any significant change in the early sixteenth-century Church, although it nevertheless pointed to the possibility of a more spiritual, unified and holy Church. Colet was a passionate and pious man who does not fall easily into any historical, intellectual or ecclesiastical category. Ultimately, he escapes identification with any other set of contemporaneous idealists because his vision was his own. This study offers a timely re-assessment of the life of a complex religious figure of pre-Reformation England.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Jonathan Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2007-11-28
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780857711984


Charters And Charter Scholarship In Britain And Ireland

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This book draws together a collection of essays looking at the ways in which charters and charter scholarship in different areas of Britain and Ireland, highlighting comparisons and contrasts in charter production and use. The book shows the crucial importance of charters as sources for understanding the history of royal administration and, more broadly, the perceptions and portrayals of kingly power, as well as developments in written culture.

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Genre : History
Author : M. Flanagan
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2005-07-14
File : 246 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230523050


Building Children S Worlds

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Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed to in picturebooks during their formative years may be assumed to influence how they regard such architecture as adults. Contemporary urban environments the world over represent the various stages of modernism in architecture. This book reads that history through picturebooks and considers the kinds of national identities and histories they construct. Twelve specialist essays from international scholars address questions such as: Is modern architecture used to construct specific narratives of childhood? Is it taken to support ‘negative’ narratives of alienation on the one hand and ‘positive’ narratives of happiness on the other? Do images of modern architecture support ideas of ‘community’? Reinforce ‘family values’? If so, what kinds of architecture, community and family? How is modern architecture placed vis-à-vis the promotion of diversity (ethnic, religious, gender etc.)? How might the use of architecture in comic strips or the presence of specific kinds of building in fiction aimed at younger adults be related to the groundwork laid in picturebooks for younger readers? This book reveals what stories are told about modern architecture and shows how those stories affect future attitudes towards and expectations of the built environment.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Torsten Schmiedeknecht
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2023-03-17
File : 255 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000844344


Monasticon Anglicanum A History Of The Abbies And Other Monasteries Hospitals Frieries And Cathedral And Collegiate Churches With Their Dependencies In England And Wales

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Release : 1846
File : 776 Pages
ISBN-13 : ONB:+Z222435106


Report

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Author : Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Release : 1883
File : 1110 Pages
ISBN-13 : ONB:+Z298417205


Report Of The Royal Commission On Historical Manuscripts

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First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.

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Genre : Great Britain
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Release : 1883
File : 1254 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCBK:C040233178


Anglo Saxon Charters

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Author : Agnes Jane Robertson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1939
File : 592 Pages
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