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Historic England. "Remains of Old Sarum castle and cathedral (1015675)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 November 2021. Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882 [45 & 46 Vict. Ch. 73], reprinted in Robert Hunter's The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty, App.A: "The Ancient Monument Protection Acts", p.37. University Press (Manchester), 1907. Hosted at Wikisource. Accessed 3 Jan 2014. Medieval Sarum also seems to have had industrial facilities such as kilns and furnaces. [8] Residential areas were principally located in the two southern quadrants, built up beside the ditch protecting the inner bailey and Norman castle. [15] Henry II held his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, prisoner at Old Sarum. In the 1190s, the plain [ clarification needed] between Old Sarum and Wilton was one of five specially designated by Richard I for the holding of English tournaments. [30] Edward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin.
A motte-and-bailey castle was built by 1069, three years after the Norman conquest. [2] The castle was held directly by the Norman kings; its castellan was generally also the sheriff of Wiltshire. In 1075, the Council of London established Herman as the first bishop of Salisbury ( Seriberiensis episcopus), [18] uniting his former sees of Sherborne and Ramsbury into a single diocese which covered the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Berkshire. He and Saint Osmund began the construction of the first Salisbury cathedral but neither lived to see its completion in 1092. [18] Osmund was a cousin of William the Conqueror [19] and Lord Chancellor of England; he was responsible for the codification of the Sarum Rite, [20] the compilation of the Domesday Book, and—after centuries of advocacy from Salisbury's bishops—was finally canonized by Pope Callixtus III in 1457. [21] In 2015 Edward Rutherfurd was the recipient of the City of Zaragoza's International Historical Novel Honor Award "for his body of work in the field of the historical novel." [7] Style [ edit ]
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Rutherfurd attended the University of Cambridge and Stanford Business School, where he earned a Sloan fellowship. [1] [2] After graduating he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. [2] He abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983 and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge and Salisbury. [3]
A foundation ceremony at the new cathedral was held in 1220 and on 14 June 1226 the tombs of Osmund, Roger and Jocelyn were moved to the new cathedral. This latter event marks the ritual abandonment of Old Sarum Cathedral, after which the demolition of the old cathedral began. Bursts with action, encyclopedic in historic detail...supremely well crafted and a delight to read.' The prose is factual and informative rather than poetical or lyrical. This is not a book where you ponder the philosophical.
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If all history books were written in the manner of this masterpiece, children would adore the subject at school. It will stand side by side with Winston Churchill's volumes on English history on bookshelves throughout the world.' At about the same time Henry II was lavishing a colossal amount of money on his great hunting palace at nearby Clarendon, and the work at Old Sarum may reflect a renewed royal interest in its potential. It also coincides with the period between 1173 and 1189 when Henry’s queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was kept under house arrest at Old Sarum for having incited her sons to rebel against their father. Mr. Rutherfurd's carefully researched reconstruction from chapter to chapter of minute fiscal changes in his fictional society reveals economic history through often intriguing detail. England's economic evolution was glacially gradual, and in the book, we follow its slow turn into political history. Capitalism comes very early to Salisbury Plain (a fulling mill of 1244 is "a combination of capitalism and feudalism that was typical of the times"). Indeed it is there almost from the very beginning, in the character of the first long-toed thief, whose gene pool spawns numerous hard-headed (and hearted) merchants.
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