Naval Warfare, The State And The Archbishops of Canterbury In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries
Insley, C., ‘Naval Warfare, The State And The Archbishops of Canterbury In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries’, The Haskins Society Journal, 33, 1-12 (2021).
Sarum Missal, 16th century
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.
Changing Queenships in 10th Century England: Rhetoric and (Self) Representation in the Case of Eadgifu at Kent in Cooling
Jonathan Tickle, 2023, Early Medieval Europe, 31: 598–628. [Research supported by the Allen Grove Local History Fund of the Kent Archaeological Society].
Henley’s Second World War Industrial Air-raid Shelters
Victor Smith explores Henley’s Second World War Industrial air-raid shelters.
Bede, Æthelberht, and the Examples of The Romans in Early Medieval England
Rabin, A., ‘Bede, Æthelberht, and the Examples of The Romans in Early Medieval England’, Early Medieval Europe, 31, 4, 563-584.
The Danelaw, 9th-11th century
Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.
Animals and food at Rochester Priory, c.1235
Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).
On The Discovery of A Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe From The Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent’
Ingrey, L. et al., ‘On The Discovery of A Late Acheulean ‘Giant’ Handaxe From The Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent’, Internet Archeology, 61. https://doi.org/1.11141/ia.61.6.
Elizabeth Elstob’s excerpts from Textus Roffensis 1712
Elizabeth Elstob made a facsimile of Textus Roffensis (c.1123), in two parts. Here, Dr Christopher Monk explores her handwritten copies of the three Old English Kentish law codes, unique to Textus, and her copy of the foundation charter of Rochester Cathedral with its marvellous decorated initial.
The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140
Dr Christopher Monk explores The Rochester Bible; a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester.
Food rents paid to Rochester Priory, c. 1235
Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.
Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Kent: Building Stones of England
Willett, C. et al., Kent: Building Stones of England. 2nd edition (Swindon: Historic England).
High Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?
Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.
Nine lives: The story of Biggin Hill
Martin, A., Nine lives: The story of Biggin Hill (London: Unicorn Publishing).
Mary Elizabeth and John Griffith, Canon of Rochester 1827-1879
T. H. James introduces Rev. Dr John Griffith and his wife Mary Elizabeth Griffith, benefactors to the Cathedral in the 19th century.
Sarah Baker and her Kentish Theatres, 1737-1816
A brief outline by Dr Jean Baker of the life and times of a remarkable but little-known woman (not an ancestor of hers) who played a significant role in the political, social and cultural evolution of Kent’s rapidly growing towns at the end of the eighteenth century.
‘Eadgifu, Governor of Kent, in a Lost Charter of Edgar’
Lloyd, J., ‘Eadgifu, Governor of Kent, in a Lost Charter of Edgar’, Anglo-Saxon England. Published online by Cambridge University Press 2023: 1-17. https://doi.10.1017/S026367512200014X.
Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6,000 years of archaeology of Thanet Earth
Weekes, J. et al., Farming, Everyday Life and Ritual: 6,000 years of archaeology of Thanet Earth (Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeology Trust).
‘In The Shadow Of Saints: the long duree of Lyminge, Kent, as a sacred Christian landscape
Gabor, T., ‘In The Shadow Of Saints: the long duree of Lyminge, Kent, as a sacred Christian landscape’, Archaeologia, 112 (London: Society of Antiquaries).
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