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      • Volume 2: From the Norman Conquest until the Accession of Richard the First
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2013
      November 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139163002
      9781108042710
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163002
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      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.07kg, 742 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
      Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, British History: General Interest, History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, British History: General Interest, History
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    Originally published in 1858, this two-volume chronicle covers approximately 500 years, from the seventh-century foundation of Abingdon Abbey to the accession of Richard I in 1189. Editor Joseph Stevenson (1806–95) claims that its value is less as a detailed history than as an illustration of England's journey from barbarism to civilisation. Although ostensibly a record of the fortunes of the Benedictine monastery, it is a rich source of not only local but also national and international history. In his prefaces to the Latin text, Stevenson discusses the manuscript sources as well as the context of the monastery's development. He goes on to describe the influence of Christianity and the monastic system on such areas as agriculture and commerce. Volume 2, which begins with the Norman Conquest, includes a life of the tenth-century abbot and saint Ethelwold, among other appendices, as well as helpful glossaries, chronological lists of documents and an index to both volumes.

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