Augustinian Priories
Canons
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Christopher Harper-Bill
Dodnash Priory
East Anglia
Economic Life
English History
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Henry II
Local Society
Social Life
South-East Suffolk
Suffolk Charters
Thirteenth Century
Twelfth Century
Product details
- ISBN 9780851153728
- Weight: 556g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jul 1998
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The publication of Suffolk charters goes from strength to strength. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
The history of Dodnash Priory, one of numerous Augustinian priories founded in East Anglia in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, has hitherto been totally obscure. The two hundred original charters edited here now show that it was founded by Wimer the chaplain, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and a prominent servant of Henry II, and that although always small it played a disproportionately large part in the economic and social life of south-east Suffolk for the next three centuries. The early charters include the first known references to Flatford Mill at East Bergholt; later documents relate to serious flooding at the end of the thirteenth century, and soon thereafter to the leasing of estates in order to adapt to new economic conditions. As always, the charters provide much information about local lay society as well as the canons themselves.
The late CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL was Professor of English History at the University of East Anglia.
