Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.47 - Buildings: Construction and Reparation
from Fifteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Gervase of Canterbury gives a detailed account of the fire that ravaged Canterbury Cathedral in the 1170s, after which an excerpt from the fire regulations published in 1212 in London after another major fire in the city is included. Building and repairs are exemplified by documents recording work done at WIndsor Castle and Westminster Abbey, as well as the accounts of payment made for repair to the clock on Westminster Palace, now replaced by Big Ben. Finally a contract is included between a builder and the authorities at St. Paul’s regarding the building of a large merchant’s house in the City of London, with details as to the plan of the house and the sourcing of the materials.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 439 - 458Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024