Lordship and landscape in Norfolk 1250-1350 : the early records of Holkham
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Lordship and landscape in Norfolk 1250-1350 : the early records of Holkham
（Records of social and economic history, new ser.,
Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, c1993
Available at 13 libraries
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Bibliography: p.[xxii]-xxxii
Includes indexes
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Documents in Latin
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The wealth of documentary material assembled in this volume brings to light the medieval origins of the most famous enclosure of modern Britain, and thereby makes a contribution to our understanding of the making of the English landscape. The sources include many instruments of land conveyance among a large group of local freeholders, as well as a variety of manorial documents covering Holkham's several manors. Of particular importance is the "Neel Cartulary", an exceptional document of medieval estate management and a key source for the study of the Norfolk landscape. The introductory chapters use the texts to reconstruct a picture of hamlets, gardens, closes, arable farms, a busy fishing port and a teeming population of peasants, small lords, mariners and merchants - a landscape obliterated by the radical transformations of the 18th/19th centuries. The appendices include a prosopography and a detailed topography.
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