The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey - Essays in Honour of the Ninetieth Birthday of C.A.Ralegh Radford

Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.

List of contents

Preface - Aelred Watkin
Pagan and Christian by the Severn Sea - Philip Rahtz
Some Evidence for New Settlements and Field Systems in Late Anglo-Saxon Somerset - Michael D. Costen
The Somerset Barns of Glastonbury Abbey - C J Bond and J B Weller
The Tribunal, Glastonbury, Somerset - Robert W Dunning
A Single-Sheet Facsimile of a Diploma of King Ine for Glastonbury - Lesley Abrams
An Early Irish Fragment of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae - James Carley and Ann Dooley
Glastonbury's Early Abbots - Sarah Foot
Glastonbury and the Glastening - David E Thornton
Eadmer's Letter to the Monks of Glastonbury Concerning St Dunstan's Disputed Remains - Richard Sharpe
The Marshalling of Antiquity: Glastonbury's Historical Dossier - Julia Crick
Glastonbury's Cornish Connections - Oliver J. Padel
A Glastonbury Obit-List - Matthew Blows
Fraud and its Consequences: Savaric of Bath and the Reform of Glastonbury - Charles T Wood
Glastonbury Abbey and Education - Nicholas Orme
From Ynys Wydrin to Glasynbri: Glastonbury in Welsh Vernacular Tradition - Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Glastonbury, Joseph of Arimathea and the Grail in John Hardyng's Chronicle - Felicity Riddy

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Abrams
• Assisted by: Lesley Abrams (Editor), James Carley (Editor), James P Carley (Editor), James P. Carley (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.1991
• EAN: 9780851152844
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-284-4
• No. of pages: 361
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 685 g
• Series: J. Ranade Series on Computer
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Archäologie, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Medieval, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain