Main entry:

Thompson, M. W. (Michael Welman)

Title & Author:

Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales / Michael Thompson.

Publication:

Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1998.

Description:

xiv, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction. i. Contemporary sources. ii. What did a bishop do? iii. Travelling -- Ch. 2. Castles by the cathedral. i. Durham. ii. Lincoln. iii. Old Sarum. iv. Ely. v. Llandaff -- Ch. 3. See palaces. i. Continental bishops' palaces. ii. Benedictine abbots' houses. iii. See palaces. iv. Two-storeyed chapels. v. Summary -- Ch. 4. London houses. i. Right bank. ii. Left bank. iii. Summary -- Ch. 5. Castles on the manors. i. Bishop Roger of Salisbury. ii. Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester. iii. Alexander, bishop of Lincoln. iv. Hugh du Puiset, bishop of Durham -- Ch. 6. Episcopal security in the later middle ages. i. Crime and violence. ii. Licences to crenellate. iii. Castles -- Ch. 7. Manor houses.
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Summary:

From 1133 to 1536 there were 17 bishops' sees in England and four in Wales. Two of these 21 sees had two cathedrals: Bath and Wells and Coventry and Lichfield. At each cathedral the bishop had a house or palace. The book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. An attempt is made to describe how these buildings relate to the way of life of the bishops in relation to their duties and their income and how in particular the dramatic social changes of the later middle ages influenced their form.
The book includes over a hundred plans, sections and photographs of the surviving parts of bishops' residences, with a survey of 1647 of the Archbishop's palace at Canterbury before demolition. It will be of interest to architectural historians, of course, and its social-cultural approach makes it equally valuable to students of medieval history and literature.

ISBN:

1840142774 (hb ; alk. paper)
9781840142778 (hb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Bishops Homes and haunts England.
Bishops Homes and haunts Wales.
Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Évêques Résidences et lieux familiers Angleterre.
Évêques Résidences et lieux familiers Pays de Galles.
Église Histoire 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Bishops Homes and haunts.
Church history Middle Ages.
Woningen.
Kastelen.
Bisschoppen.
Castles Wales
Castles England
England Church history 1066-1485.
Wales Church history.
Angleterre Histoire religieuse 1066-1485.
Pays de Galles Histoire religieuse.
England.
Wales.

Form/genre:

Church history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 175891
Call No.: NA4840 .T4 1998
Status: Available