The Rites of Durham

by Lynda Rollason, William Claxton, Margaret Harvey

Book Overview

First modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution.

The importance of the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854440828
• ISBN13: 9780854440825
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Surtees Society
• Length: 825 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.9" x 9.5"