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1070-1214 ISBN 9780197260913
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Given the relative paucity of chronicle evidence for this East Anglian see (which finally settled in Norwich at the end of the 11th century), the 400-plus acta recorded in this volume form an important archive for the study of the seven bishops who presided in this period. Of these acta, 170 have never been printed before. An introduction deals briefly with the careers of the bishops, their familia, the content of the acta and matters of diplomatic interest, and appendices list references to acts possibly recorded in written instruments and known details of the bishops' itineraries. The documents themselves provide important evidence for the development of episcopal administration in the 12th century. The matters treated include the foundation and endowment of monasteries, the multiplication of parish churches and chapels and episcopal supervision of the cure of souls, the management of the bishops' estate and their judicial activities. The collection as a whole reveals increasingly effective episcopal control of a large and populous diocese.
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1215-1243 ISBN 9780197262122
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This volume contains over 150 acta of Bishops Pandulph Verraclo, Thomas Blundeville and William Raleigh. Main themes are the ordination of vicarages in parish churches appropriated to monasteries (described in more detail than hitherto), and the campaign to extend episcopal patronage in order to compensate for the lack of cathedral prebends. There is much interesting detail on the clergy of Norfolk and Suffolk, including Italian incumbents; and the relationship between the bishops and their court on the one hand and the crown on the other is also traced in some detail. Overall, three bishops from a background in papal and royal administration can be seen to have devoted considerable attention to their large diocese.
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1244-1266 ISBN 9780197264171
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This volume collects together the 198 acta issued by Bishops Walter Suffield and Simon Walton of Norwich.
The development of the diocese of Norwich is outlined in English Episcopal Acta 6, Norwich 1070-1214. Although the rapid multiplication of houses of monks, canons and nuns which had characterised the century and a half after the Norman Conquest had slackened in pace, the period covered by this volume saw the foundation of two nunneries, Marham and Flixton, and the establishment by Bishop Suffield himself of a major new hospital, St Giles in Norwich.
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