Tradition and Change
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Chibnall Presented by her Friends on the Occasion of her Seventieth Birthday
Contributors: Diana Greenway (Editor); Christopher Holdsworth (Editor); Jane Sayers (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 27, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780521257930
Subjects: England; British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History / Great Britain; Medieval Church (476-1517); Chibnall, Marjorie; France; Great Britain; History; Medieval period, 1066-1485; Medieval period, 987-1515
First sentence: IN A CELEBRATED PASSAGE in The Warden Anthony Trollope summed up his view of how a diocese was rum: either the bishop or his archdeacon have sinecures'; in the see of Barchester at that epoch it was to the archdeacon who held the reins.