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Diana E Greenway
Forfatter af Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Oxford World's Classics)
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Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Oxford World's Classics) (1989) — Redaktør — 242 eksemplarer, 4 anmeldelser
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The History of the English People 1000-1154 (Oxford World's Classics) (1155) — Oversætter — 115 eksemplarer, 1 anmeldelse
Anglo-Norman Studies IX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986 (1987) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1995 (1996) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
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This is a society totally dominated by the Church, which has both secular and spiritual power and can do anything to the people who live on its land, from chopping their heads off to controlling whether or not their neighbours will say good morning to them. It must have been very difficult for anyone who couldn’t or wasn’t allowed to conform. You can see this most clearly in the way the Jews are treated. It was literally impossible for them to live anything approaching a normal life. Jocelin lists his complains against them and comments “Even more incongruous, during the troubles [when the townspeople were murdering them] their wives and children were sheltered in our pittancery.” Warts and all, those personalities.
This is only 100 years after the Conquest and the society is still clearly divided into Norman and Anglo-Saxon. The Abbot, I take from some of the comments, must have been Anglo-Saxon which explains why the king does not know him when he is elected.
I live not far from the Abbey and was able to visit while reading this and it really brought the ruins and the book alive. Go there if you can. It’s quite an experience to contrast the power structures in the chronicle with the tottering structures left by the Reformation.
The OUP edition is a good one. Excellent notes and an introduction that really is a marvellous piece of scene-setting and may well be a masterpiece of its kind.… (mere)