East Anglia's History

by Wilson, Richard G.; Rawcliffe, Carole; Harper-Bill, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780851158785
• ISBN10: 0851158781
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England. Archaeological evidence abounds: burial mounds, castles, great churches deriving from the wealth created by sheep, yeoman farmhouses, and market towns of eighteenth-century elegance. Behind these visible manifestations of the march of centuries lie particular histories, and these seventeen studies from the region's best scholars reveal some of those jigsaw puzzles of time, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by way of monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region, and at the same time honour Norman Scarfe, whose own studies have played a notable part in the interpretation of East Anglia's history. Contributors JOHN BLATCHLY, JAMES CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, CAROLE RAWCLIFFE, DAVID DYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID MacCULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Editors' Preface	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Norman Scarfe: An Appreciation	1	(4)
John Blatchly
Domesday Herrings	5	(14)
James Campbell
Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia	19	(22)
Christopher Harper-Bill
`On the Threshold of Eternity': Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries	41	(32)
Carole Rawcliffe
The Parson's Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking?	73	(20)
David Dymond
Suffolk Churches in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of Wills	93	(14)
Peter Northeast
Sir John Fastolf and the Land Market: An Enquiry of the Early 1430s Regarding Purchasable Property	107	(16)
Colin Richmond
Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: The Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration	123	(26)
John Blatchly
Judith Middleton-Stewart
A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology?	149	(10)
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall	159	(30)
Hassell Smith
Shrubland before Barry: A House and its Landscape 1660--1880	189	(24)
Tom Williamson
Garden Canals in Suffolk	213	(30)
Edward Martin
Estate Stewards in Woodland High Suffolk 1690--1880	243	(16)
Jonathan Theobald
A Journal of a Tour through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the Summer of 1741	259	(30)
Richard Wilson
Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich Musician, a Collector of Prints and a Caricaturist	289	(20)
Hugh Belsey
Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s	309	(24)
Steven J. Plunkett
John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831--1901) and the Ipswich Borough Records	333	(16)
Geoffrey Martin
The Caen Controversy	349	(8)
Michael Howard
Select Bibliography of the Writings of Norman Scarfe	357
John Blatchly