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Marriages of Monk, Sherborne, Hampshire, England, 1618-1811
Monk Sherborne is officially known as Sherborne.
Scenes of Rural Life in Hampshire Among the Manors of Bramshott
PREFACE: At the close of a long period of ministerial work in Bramshott, the author has gathered up some memories of the past which may perhaps interest the friends from whom he has to part, as also possibly some others of a wider circle, who may care for illustrations of varied phases of rural life in England. Evidences for what is written in the text are given in Appendices and Notes, but with a sparing hand, for often statements have been made after much study of family papers and of other local records, without the dry as dust details of references which might repel all but resolute readers with robust appetite for bristling facts.....Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Sherborne Missal
This superbly illustrated study introduction explores its creation and history of the 15th century Sherborne Missal and assesses its importance as a masterpiece in the history of English art.
The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism
Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister...
Sherborne, England
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