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  • Volume 2: From the Norman Conquest until the Accession of Richard the First
  • Edited by Joseph Stevenson
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1858
Online ISBN:
9781139163002
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139163002
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
Subjects:
British History 1066-1450, British History: General Interest, History
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Book description

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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