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Ramsey : the lives of an English Fenland town, 1200-1600

Title: Ramsey : the lives of an English Fenland town, 1200-1600 / Anne Reiber DeWindt & Edwin Brezette DeWindt.
Author: DeWindt, Anne Reiber, 1943-
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2006.

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Additional Authors

DeWindt, Edwin Brezette.

Description

xiii, 455 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm +

Summary

"In a detailed study of the small English market town of Ramsey, the authors examine the inner life of this fascinating community from the twelfth century to the end of the sixteenth century. The book centers on the lives of medieval men and women and explores their social roles, activities, family relationships, and religion. It also considers the spatial and social boundaries that existed between the town's lord - the rich and powerful Benedictine monastery of Ramsey Abbey - and its tenants." "The people of Ramsey included clerics, knights, and laborers, and their activities overlapped to the point that the infamous tripartite division of medieval society - into those who prayed, fought, and worked - becomes meaningless. The book also crosses chronological boundaries, moving through decades of rebellion, plague, demographic turnover, violence, bloodshed, and war, and ending with religious upheaval that spelled the death of the 600-year-old abbey and the intrusion of an ambitious new lay landlord with courtly connections."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-443) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Beginnings -- Big enough for a church -- Shifting alliances -- Living dangerously -- The sworn twelve -- Henry Cromwell and the new lordship of Ramsey -- Up the winding staircase -- Some good occupations -- The women of Ramsey -- Family matters.

ISBN

0813214246
9780813214245

LCCN

2005007733
9780813214245

OCLC

ocm59279943
59279943
SCSB-14259492

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library