A survey of the landed endowment of Glastonbury Abbey before 1066, with a history of its estates.
Meticulously researched... consummate handling of the evidence opens up avenues of further, more general, enquiry. HISTORYA painstaking and valuable analysis of the charters in their local setting and in relation to the evidence of Domesday Book... A careful and scholarly book. ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
| Lists | |
| List of Maps | |
| General Editors' Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Maps | |
| The Problem | p. 1 |
| The Sources | p. 10 |
| The Endowment: Survey and Analysis | p. 42 |
| Estate-Management, Tenure, and the Evidence of Domesday Book | p. 266 |
| The Problem of Management | p. 266 |
| Domesday Book: Glastonbury Abbey's Holdings | p. 272 |
| Berkshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, and Hampshire | p. 275 |
| Dorset | p. 276 |
| Wiltshire | p. 278 |
| Somerset | p. 280 |
| Domesday Book: Conditions of Tenure and the Problem of Terminology | p. 289 |
| Some Issues | p. 318 |
| Bibliography | p. 355 |
| Index of Manuscripts | p. 375 |
| Index of Anglo-Saxon Charters | p. 376 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780851153698
ISBN-10: 0851153690
Series: Studies in Anglo-Saxon History
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 402
Published: 1996
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.738