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    Volume 1: From the Foundation of the Monastery until the Norman Conquest
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2013
    15 November 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139163019
    9781108042734
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163019
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    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.79kg, 540 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 1, which ends at the Norman Conquest, consists largely of the monastery's title deeds, with a sketch of the circumstances under which each grant was executed.

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