Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia - Volume 2

William Henry Hart

ISBN 10: 1108052193 / ISBN 13: 9781108052191

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ramsey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, was founded in 969 and rapidly became of one the richest and most important Benedictine houses in the country. It was famous for its school and library, and a thriving market town grew up around it, despite its isolated position in the Fens. The cartulary contains a range of legal, financial and ecclesiastical documents dating from 974 to 1436, although the greater part was compiled in the fourteenth century. It is particularly important for the study of manorial and economic history (and the abbey's twelfth-century chronicle is also reissued in this series). This three-volume edition was published between 1884 and 1893. Volume 2 contains documents 230-509, although they are not arranged chronologically. They include extensive Latin rent rolls, as the abbey held property throughout East Anglia and in London, and Anglo-Saxon charters of Edward the Confessor. English side-notes to the text are provided throughout.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia - Volume 2
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108052193
• ISBN 13: 9781108052191
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 26D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 729 grams

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Synopsis

Ramsey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, was founded in 969 and rapidly became of one the richest and most important Benedictine houses in the country. It was famous for its school and library, and a thriving market town grew up around it, despite its isolated position in the Fens. The cartulary contains a range of legal, financial and ecclesiastical documents dating from 974 to 1436, although the greater part was compiled in the fourteenth century. It is particularly important for the study of manorial and economic history (and the abbey's twelfth-century chronicle is also reissued in this series). This three-volume edition was published between 1884 and 1893. Volume 2 contains documents 230–509, although they are not arranged chronologically. They include extensive Latin rent rolls, as the abbey held property throughout East Anglia and in London, and Anglo-Saxon charters of Edward the Confessor. English side-notes to the text are provided throughout.

Book Description

Ramsey Abbey was one of the wealthiest monasteries in the country. Its cartulary is particularly important for the study of economic history. It contains material dating from the tenth to fifteenth centuries, dealing with properties throughout East Anglia. This three-volume edition was published between 1884 and 1893, augmented from additional manuscript sources.