Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.05.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
344
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/2 cm
Gewicht
486 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-243-4
Durham is usually remembered in stone. Here it speaks in ledgers. Five centuries in close hand. Memorials of St. Giles, Durham gathers a parish records collection of grassmen's accounts, a churchwardens accounts transcript, and related papers that track the daily machinery of worship, work, and welfare. You meet clergy, tenants, craftsmen, and the poor in the same bookkeeping line, year after year. From rents and repairs to payments for the vulnerable, the entries illuminate english parish administration at street level, where charity and poor relief were organised, argued over, and paid for. The volume also preserves rare medieval hospital records for Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene, opening a window onto british monastic hospitals and the practical realities of care in the middle ages durham knew best: disease, pilgrimage, alms, and obligation. As local history primary sources, these documents let you hear the town without a narrator - the pace of seasons, the pressure of prices, the quiet authority of the vestry. They are a sturdy genealogy research reference for readers tracing names, occupations, and neighbourhood ties, and a foundational tool for uk parish register studies and academic ecclesiastical history alike. For anyone drawn to durham england history, this is not nostalgia but evidence: a record of how community life was maintained, one payment at a time. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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