Sarum

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For Rutherfurd always seems to give life's life-ness priority - no mushy romance and "arranged" conclusion, just plain simple everyday life and events as they may likely happen in mine, yours, and their lives. The fictional characters of the book’s first half, drew me in much more than those of the latter half. This was to transform the site, effectively dividing the hillfort in two: an inner set of fortifications which became his castle, and a huge outer enclosure, within which a cathedral was also built. As their fates and fortunes intertwine over the course of the centuries, their greater destinies offer a fascinating glimpse into the future.

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I'm glad I read it and would definitely recommend it if, like me, you like to know where things have come from, but never took to studying history - and you have some time on your hands. I had no real issues with the historical parts, since the author obviously has a wonderful grasp of British history and he does a great job framing the attitudes of the citizens of Sarum as they pertain to the bigger picture. Many of the barrows in the vicinity of Sarum have been opened, and in them several antiquarian relics have been discovered. The novel traces back the history of man living in what is now the British Isles from around 10,000 years ago.As covering all of the years mentioned at the same pace as the "Old Sarum" chapters would have resulted in a book twice this size. There was considerable variation from diocese to diocese, or even church to church, in the details of the rubrics: the place where the Epistle was sung, for instance, varied enormously; from a lectern at the altar, from a lectern in the quire, to the feature described as the 'pulpitum', a word used ambiguously for the place of reading (a pulpit) or for the rood screen.

Sarum Use - Anglican History The Sarum Use - Anglican History

Nothing for the godly to fear': Use of Sarum Influence on the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (Doctoral thesis). However, there was a tendency to read back Victorian centralizing tendencies into mediaeval texts, and so a rather rubrical spirit was applied to liturgical discoveries. William seems to have decided soon after the Norman Conquestto build a castle in the middle of the earthworks at Old Sarum. The late 12th-century canon Peter of Blois [31] described his prebendary as "barren, dry, and solitary, exposed to the rage of the wind" and the cathedral "as a captive on the hill where it was built, like the ark of God shut up in the profane house of Baal.

Everything starts and everything ends -- cultures, religions, industry and business, technology, reigns great and small. SARUM: THE NOVEL OF ENGLAND does what historical fiction is supposed to do: entertain and enlighten. Thus a poor, storm-beaten vagabond in 1480 prays for a sign from God as to which road he should take on his journey and is treated to a miraculous indicator in the form of a lightning bolt that burns an absolutely straight path across a cornfield (it points to London): "How could he know that buried underneath the cornfield, for a thousand years, a small, metalled Roman road had lain hidden, along which, since it was a perfect conductor, the huge bolt of lightning had earthed itself? C. Hoare described it as "a city of high note in the remotest periods by the several barrows near it, and its proximity to the two largest stone circles in England, namely, Stonehenge and Avebury.