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ADDY SIDNEY OLDALL Church and Manor : A Study in English Economic History
George Allen, U.K. 1913. First Edition, Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 473 pages + frontispiece, including Index & 40 figures/plans. According to the Preface 'OF late years various books relating to the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor have appeared. Two or three of these deal with short periods, such as the eleventh or the thirteenth century, and the late Mr. Seebohm, in a masterly investigation, has surveyed a considerable part of the field. Notwithstanding the good work that has been done, an essential part of the subject has been omitted, or misunderstood. The manor and the ecclesiastical benefice have been regarded as entirely independent things. But the economic history of medieval England will gain much in simplicity if it can be shown that lord and priest were once the same person; that the hall cannot at an early time be distinguished from the church; and that ecclesiastical benefices were themselves manors, with all the privileges which belonged to feudal lordship. No treatment of the economic history of these islands can be satisfactory unless it includes the church-building and the benefice within its scope. To describe the scattered acres of the open fields, with all the complicated belongings of the village community, and yet leave out the building near which the frail and mud-built houses of the inhabitants were gathered, is to omit the chief point of interest, for the church was not only the place of worship but also the seat of local government. It has been thought desirable to treat the evidence from architecture, as found in existing remains or referred to in documents, in considerable detail, because, if it can be proved that the church-fabric was evolved from the hall or lord's dwelling, a strong presumption arises, on that ground alone, that the benefice was the manor...' Book Very Good save marking to back board. Green boards blind stamped to front gilt to spine, unfortunately marked to back board. Contents Near Fine - some browning to endpapers otherwise lovely, clean, bright & tightly bound. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Sociology & Politics Inventory No: 9998298.
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