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Medieval England

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
by Peter Brears
The history of medieval food and cookery has received a fair amount of attention from the point of view of recipes (of which many survive)and of the general context of feasts and feasting. It has never, as yet, been studied with an eye to the real mechanics of food production and service: the equipment used, the household organisation, the architectural arrangements for kitchens, store-rooms, pantries, larders, cellars, and domestic ...
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Medieval Landscapes
edited by Mark Gardiner and Stephen Rippon
The medieval period was at the centre of W G Hoskins concerns: the period when his 'palimpsest' of the English landscape was, if not quite wiped clean, very thoroughly overwritten. The essays here demonstrate how researchers have moved beyond issues of describing and 'reading' the landscape to address the social and ideological - as well as economic - functions of landscapes, and to seek explanations for regional difference. 256p, 67 ...
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West Cotton, Raunds: A Study of Medieval Settlement Dynamics AD 450-1450. Excavation of a deserted medieval hamlet in Northamptonshire, 1985-89
by Andy Chapman
The open area excavation of nearly a half of the small deserted medieval hamlet of West Cotton, Raunds, Northamptonshire has revealed the dynamic processes of constant development in a way that has rarely been achieved on other comparable sites in England. Its origins have been seen to lie in the mid tenth-century plantation of a planned settlement based on regular one-acre plots, which occurred within the political context of the reconquest of ...
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The North Through its Names: A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England
by Dave Postles
The North of England and northern-ness are elusive concepts, both academically and in popular perception. This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at what can be learned about the idea of the 'North' of England as a distinct identity from its surnames. The personal names from the north during the medieval/early modern period are linguistic phenomena, incorporating dialect speech that defined a northern consciousness, and in this ...
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Vicars Choral at English Cathedrals: Cantate Domino: History, Architecture And Archaeology
edited by Richard Hall and David Stocker
Staffing medieval cathedrals was always a problem. Some English cathedrals introduced monks, but almost half of them put themselves in the hands of secular priests (canons). As cathedrals became complex 'prayer factories' between the 12th and 16th centuries, the canons appointed Vicars Choral to perform liturgical functions in their stead. From the moment of their first appearance in the 12th century, there was concern about the vicars' ...
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Alban's Buried Town
Niblett, Rosalind
St Albans has a long tradition of archaeological investigation dating back to the 18th century. What has been lacking however, is a detailed synthesis and interpretation of the accumulated information. This book is intended to meet that need, and comes out of a project set up by English Heritage in 1992 designed to promote 'intensive' urban archaeological strategy. This volume is a critical assessment of the current archaeological information ...
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Medieval Villages in an English Landscape
by Richard Jones and Mark Page
The village - one of the keystones of the English rural landscape - has a powerful hold on the imagination. The origin of nucleated and dispersed settlements - the countryside of villages and the countryside of hamlets - has since become a central concern of landscape historians. This book directly addresses this central problem. The end-result of a 5 year project which has explored a group of 12 parishes on the Buckinghamshire-Northamptonshire ...
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The Mortimers: Lords of the March
by Charles Hopkinson and Martin Speight
Occupying a central position on the English-welsh border and in the Welsh March - the parts of Wales under Anglo-Norman control - the Mortimers have long deserved their own history. The early history of the family is set out in some detail. Once they Mortimers gained a foothold in the March they switched their attentions to acquiring a Celtic empire not only in Wales but also in Ireland, in addition to their English estates. Most members of the ...
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The Fitzalans, Earls of Arundel and Surrey, Lords of the Welsh Marches (1267-1415)
by Michael Burtscher
The FitzAlans, originally from Brittany, acquired lands on the Welsh March, from William the Conqueror, which they expanded through skillfull use of marriage, adding again through marriage the titles of Arundel and Surrey during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This analytical narrative tells their story during those centuries, and is certainly the most detailed work on the family to date. As well as tracing their fortunes, the book also ...
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Names, Time and Place: Essays in Memory of Richard McKinley
by Della Hooke, David Postles
Richard McKinley was a distinguished historian of Leicestershire and a pioneering specialist in the history of English surnames. This festschrift contains twelve essays written by his former colleagues and friends. They focus on subjects which interested McKinley throughout his career, particularly surname studies on late medieval and post-medieval England. 264p, 18 b/w figs, tbs (Leopard's Head Press 2003)
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