Re: medieval history

In article <dkhvpr$afq$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Celia Blay"
<c_a_blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "David J. Starr" <dstarrboston@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FaNaf.8$941.7@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > And, new comers, please feel free to post on medieval topics. There
> > are
> > a fair number of the knowledgeable old timers still here who will be
> > pleased to offer courteous replies to just about any sort of medieval
> > post.
>
> Thanks for the invitation.
> While researching the royal goldsmiths who worked in my area from at
> least
> the Roman era until about the 14th c.
> I discovered that they had a controlling interest in major building work
> and
> consequently land in the area of the gold workshops was granted to
> institutions throughout England for the duration of building work. Many
> of
> the charters survived in the archives of the abbeys etc and were later
> said
> to belong to places of the same or similar name nearer the abbey etc. I
> am
> fortunate to live in an area of large estates and can find out the old
> field
> names that often go back to the Anglo Saxons from the estate maps. Using
> these maps it is possible to follow the bounds of the charters and
> because
> there are so many of them build up a picture of land use and everyday
> life
> from the 7th to the 14th c.
> the early goldsmiths were descended from Cerdic who was buried here in
> a
> field now called 'Great How'
> As so many of his descendants owned land here there can be little doubt
> that
> this is the burial place of THE Cerdic.
> It occured to me that should this grave ever be excavated if any teeth
> remained it would be possible to finally discover from the isotopes if
> Cerdic was British.
> I was so fascinated by the details of the lives of peasants and slaves
> revealed by the charters that I almost overlooked the rewriting of
> important
> parts of A/S history that was uncovered.
>

Thank you. It sounds as if you've been having fun 8-) My medieval
research is limited to books in the US, but i get to Europe from time to
time and can visit places with real history then.

Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar), biblioholic medievalist

bib-li-o-hol-ism [<Gr biblion] n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM]
books, of books: the habitual longing to purchase, read,
store, admire, and consume books in excess.

http://www.airstreamcomm.net/~erilarlo


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