The Rites of Durham Hardback
by William Claxton
Edited by Margaret Harvey, Lynda Rollason
Part of the Publications of the Surtees Society series
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First modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution. The importance of the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized.
This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary, William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices contains a full edition of the related text which describes the windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder (1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form ofa paper roll.
The volume is completed by a comprehensive index.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:825 pages, 36 b/w, 5 line illus.
- Publisher:Surtees Society
- Publication Date:18/12/2020
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- ISBN:9780854440825
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:825 pages, 36 b/w, 5 line illus.
- Publisher:Surtees Society
- Publication Date:18/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780854440825