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Circled With Stone

Mark Stoyle

3h32min15

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283 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h32min.
Winner of the Devon Book of the Year Award 2003, Circled with Stone is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods. The book traces the development of the fortifications over time, explores the many purposes which they served, and shows how they were defended against a series of major attacks: most notably during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549 and the English Civil War. The text is accompanied by a series of extensive transcripts from Exeter's matchless civic archives, including two newly-discovered documents relating to the Prayer Book rebellion. The book includes a wealth of illustrations and brings together, for the very first time, colour reproductions of all the early maps of Exeter, as well as a series of specially commissioned photographs of the city walls today. Designed to be accessible to the general reader, as well as to the specialist, Circled with Stone paints a uniquely vivid picture of the role which urban fortifications played in everyday life in one of early modern England's greatest cities. Richly detailed, fully illustrated and accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to historians and archaeologists.List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Part I: The History of the City Walls Introduction 1. The Nature of the City Defences 2. Purpose and Function 3. Maintainance and Repair 4. The City Defences under the Tudors 5. The City Defences under the Early Stuarts Conclusion Suggested Further Reading Part II: Documents Relating to the City Walls Introduction The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts Editorial Conventions 1. Extracts from the City Receivers' Accounts, 1482-1660 2. Expenses in Repelling Perkin Warbeck, 1497 3. Extracts from the Chamber Act Books, 1511-1545 4. Purchase of Ordnance for the City, 1545 5. Expenses in the 'Commotion', 1549 6. List of the City Ordnance, 1556 7. Instructions for the Defence of the City, 1643 8. List of the City Ordnance, 1643, Annual Expenditure on the City Defences, 1485-1660 Glossary of Terms used in the Documents Abbreviations Notes Indexes Places and Subjects Persons
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Affiche du document Water in the City

Water in the City

Mark Stoyle

2h48min45

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225 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h49min.
The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England, possessing a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance.  Among the most impressive of these was its highly sophisticated system of public water supply, including a unique network of underground passages.  Most of these ancient passages still survive today. Water in the City provides a richly illustrated history of Exeter's famous underground passages—and of Exeter’s system of public water supply during the medieval and early modern periods. Illustrated with full colour throughout, Mark Stoyle shows how and why the passages and aqueducts were originally built, considers the technologies that were used in their construction, explains how they were funded and maintained, and reveals the various ways in which the water fountains were used and abused by the townsfolk.Illustrations   Acknowledgments Glossary of archaic words and phrases used in the text and documents Abbreviations                                                                                               1        Introduction Part I: The History of Exeter’s Underground Passages and Aqueduct Systems 2        The Aqueducts of Medieval Exeter, 1226-1420              3        The Development of the New Conduit, 1420-1536          4        After the Dissolution of the Monasteries                           5        The City Aqueducts under the Early Stuarts                     6        After the Restoration                                                         Part II: The Life of the City Aqueducts 7        The Role of the Aqueducts in Exeter’s daily life               Part III: Documents relating to the City Aqueducts The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts                1.       Extracts from the City Receivers’ Accounts, 1424-1603  2.       ‘Outgoings for making of Exeter’s New Conduit’, 1441  3.       Account of Work on the Great Conduit, 1534-35             Notes Bibliography Index
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