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Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.
Author : Courtenay Arthur Ralegh Radford
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851152844
Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.
Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780854313006
Published for the first time ever, the results of thirty-six seasons of excavation at the iconic site of Glastonbury Abbey, one of the key sites for an understanding of early monasticism in Britain.
Author : Eleanore M Jewett
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1883937485
Amidst great mystery, Hugh is left in the care of Glastonbury Abbey by his father who must flee England too swiftly to be burdened by a crippled son. Ashamed of his physical weakness, yet possessed of a stout heart, Hugh finds that life at the abbey is surprisingly full in this year 1171, in the turbulent days of King Henry II. Hugh, his friend Dickon and their strange friend, the mad Bleheris, uncover a treasure trove and with it a deeper mystery of the sort that could only occur in Glastonbury where Joseph of Arimithea was said to have lived out his last years. Before all is done, more is resolved than Hugh could ever have hoped. A Newbery Honor winner. Illustrated by Frederick Chapman.
Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674241207
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Author : James P. Carley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780859915724
The essays in this volume, some reprinted in their original form and some extensively revised, are concerned with the Arthurian traditions associated with Glastonbury Abbey. Certain of the essays are analytic and others provide editions of hitherto unknown texts. They all examine ways in which legendary materials and historical facts interconnected in the process by which Glastonbury Abbey came to present itself, nationally and internationally, as the custodian of King Arthur's relics and the burial place of Joseph of Arimathea, and the importance, political and ecclesiastical, that it derived from the connection. Professor JAMES CARLEY is the author of Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous and a past editor of Arthurian Literature. Topics: Glastonbury Legends (WATKIN, GRANSDEN), Legend of St Joseph of Glastonbury (LAGORIO), Guinevere at Glastonbury (WOOD), Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (BARBER, LAPIDGE), Was Mordred buried at Glastonbury? (BARBER), Glastonbury in Welsh Vernacular Tradition (LLOYD-MORGAN), Second Exhumation of Arthur's Remains, 1278 (PARSONS), Abbey Memorial Plate (GOODALL), Arthur's Epitaph/s (CARLEY, BROWN, WRIGHT, WITHRINGTON), Hardyng and Holy Grail (KENNEDY, RIDDY), Henry V and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones, Holy Cross of Waltham at Montacute, Excavation of Arthur's Grave (CARLEY), Perlesvaus (Wells fragment), Quedam Narracio de nobili rege Arthuro, De Origine Gigantum (CARLEY, CRICK, EVANS), Glastonbury tablets (KROCHALIS), Relics in 14th Century (CARLEY, HOWLEY).
Author : Montague Rhodes James
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Abbeys
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Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Arthur Lee Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Parishes
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Author : Francis Aidan Gasquet
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Abbeys
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Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108496547
Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory. This title is available as Open Access.