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Janet
Fairweather, trans.
Liber
Eliensis: A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh to the Twelfth
Century.
Woodbridge:
Boydell Press, 2005.
ISBN
1843830159.
Paperback.
560pp.
Publisher's
recommended £30.00/$60.00
This is
the
first ever translation from Latin into English of an important source
for English and ecclesiastical history. The Liber Eliensis is an account of the
history of the Isle of Ely compiled by a monk of Ely monastery in the
later twelfth century. He uses evidence from the monastery's Latin and
Old English archives, combined with chronicle data and biographies of
saints and heroes, to tell the story of Ely in three parts. The first
book, chiefly concerned with the abbesses of Ely (St Aethelthryth
founded the house as a double house under female leadership), extends
from the conversion of East Anglia to Christianity to the aftermath of
the Danish sack; the second book covers 970-1109, when the Benedictine
monastery was ruled by abbots, and includes an account of Hereward's
resistance to William the Conqueror; the third book begins at the point
when Ely first became the seat of a bishop, and extends to the
compiler's own times, ending with the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. |
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