The Church and Vale of Evesham, 700-1215: Lordship, Landscape and Prayer

David Cox

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The Church and Vale of Evesham, 700-1215

Lordship, Landscape and Prayer

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Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2021
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781782046400
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046400

Series:: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Subjects:: History, British History Before 1066

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Provides a fine contribution to the rich history of the region, showing Evesham's place in the life of the medieval kingdom of England. Professor Ann Williams.

In c.701, a minster was founded in the lower Avon Valley on a deserted promontory called Evesham. Over the next five hundred years it became a Benedictine abbey and turned the Vale of Evesham into a federation of Christian communities. A landscape of scattered farms grew into one of open fields and villages, manor houses and chapels. Evesham itself developed into a town, and the abbots played a role in the affairs of the kingdom. But individual contemplation and prayer within the abbey were compromised by its corporate aspirations. As Evesham abbey waxed ever grander, exerting a national influence, it became a ready patron of the arts but had less time for private spirituality. The story ends badly in the prolonged scandal of Abbot Norreis, a libertine whose appetites caused religion to collapse at Evesham before his own sudden downfall.
This book integrates the evidence of archaeology, maps, and documents in a continuous narrative that pays as much attention to religious and cultural life as to institutional and economic matters. It provides a complete survey over one of the most important and wealthy Benedictine abbeys and its landscape, a stage on which was enacted the tense interplay of lordship andprayer.

Dr David Cox, FSA, was until his retirement county editor of the Victoria History of Shropshire and lecturer at Keele University.

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The Church and Vale of Evesham, 700-1215

Lordship, Landscape and Prayer

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-ix

Preface
pp x-xi

Timeline
pp xii-xii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiii-xvi

Part I - From Minster to Abbey (701–1078)
pp 1-2

1 - Æthelred and Ecgwine
pp 3-13

2 - A Land of Promise
pp 14-23

3 - A Waiting People
pp 24-32

4 - Ecgwine and the First Abbots
pp 33-41

5 - Decay and Revival
pp 42-49

6 - On the Defensive
pp 50-57

7 - Abbot Ælfweard and King Cnut
pp 58-67

8 - Abbot Manni, the Town, and the Vale
pp 68-77

9 - Abbot Æthelwig Under English and Norman Rule
pp 78-86

Part II - Abbot Walter (1078–1104)
pp 87-88

10 - A New Regime
pp 89-98

11 - God’s Work
pp 99-108

12 - The Estates Under Threat
pp 109-117

13 - Protecting the Future
pp 118-126

Part III - Twelfth-Century Themes (1104–1215)
pp 127-128

14 - Interested Parties
pp 129-139

15 - Order and Governance
pp 140-148

16 - Economic Realities
pp 149-157

17 - Investment
pp 158-166

18 - Worship
pp 167-175

19 - Learning and Writing
pp 176-183

20 - Religious Buildings
pp 184-192

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