The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years.
A medium-sized house containing about 15 monks, Thetford Priory was well-endowed and under the patronage of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk, but the Register was probably compiled to help regulate expenditure at a time of financial strain. The accounts provide important evidence for many aspects of monastic and outside life, including liturgy, obits and corrodies, the provisioning of the household, farming, taxation, legal disputes, and entertainments.
Part 1 contains an introduction, glossary, and accounts for the years 1482-1517. The accounts up to 1540, in which can be traced the priory's strenuous attempts to survive, will be published in Part 2, which will also include biographical and other appendices and full indexes. Together these volumes will provide an invaluable resource for historians of Norfolk and of monastic life in the run up to the Reformation.
| ISBN: | 9780197261606 |
| Publication date: | 21st March 1996 |
| Author: | D P Dymond, Norfolk Record Society |
| Publisher: | The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 348 pages |
| Series: | Records of Social and Economic History |
| Genres: |
European history: medieval period, middle ages Social and cultural history History of religion Christianity |
The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years.
A medium-sized house containing about 15 monks, Thetford Priory was well-endowed and under the patronage of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk, but the Register was probably compiled to help regulate expenditure at a time of financial strain. The accounts provide important evidence for many aspects of monastic and outside life, including liturgy, obits and corrodies, the provisioning of the household, farming, taxation, legal disputes, and entertainments.
Part 1 contains an introduction, glossary, and accounts for the years 1482-1517. The accounts up to 1540, in which can be traced the priory's strenuous attempts to survive, will be published in Part 2, which will also include biographical and other appendices and full indexes. Together these volumes will provide an invaluable resource for historians of Norfolk and of monastic life in the run up to the Reformation.
The Register of Thetford Priory. Pt.1 1482-1517 features in the following genres: European history: medieval period, middle ages, Social and cultural history, History of religion, Christianity
The Register of Thetford Priory. Pt.1 1482-1517 is available in Hardback
The Register of Thetford Priory. Pt.1 1482-1517 was written by D P Dymond, Norfolk Record Society and published by The British Academy an imprint of Liverpool University Press
The Register of Thetford Priory. Pt.1 1482-1517 has 348 pages
Yes it is part of Records of Social and Economic History series
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