The East Anglian chronicle

Abraham's sacrifice. Very early on, this Biblical theme became the subject of a number of representations who did not vary much, having a rich and precocious theology as their base: the sacrifice of Isaac prefiguring that of Christ on the Cross. The anecdotal development is one of the major variants. The dramatization of the scene in miniatures, especially noticeable from the 13th century onward, enriched the stylistic effects. The social changes that took place in medieval western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries (the place of children, attitudes to death...) provoked a final evolution. The previous embellishments were reorganized to take into account the preoccupations of the day.     

The Roadside Burial of Suicides: An East Anglian Study

While folklorists and social historians have assumed that the roadside burial of suicides was a widespread custom in England, there have been few efforts to research or locate specific examples. This study traces documented cases of the practice, and known (or suspected) roadside graves from one area of England in an attempt to establish how common this was.     

The nineteenth century Gazette Corn Returns from East Anglian markets

The official Corn Returns for individual market towns, published weekly in the London Gazette, present an opportunity for examining the activity of English country grain markets during the nineteenth century. This paper describes this currently neglected source and considers its credibility and value, using records for East Anglia as a case study.The paper is set against an account of the methods employed in collecting the Returns and a discussion of problems of reliability particularly in the quantity series. The annual quantity series for wheat and barley from 1820 to 1864 for nine East Anglian markets are then examined using methods of time series factor analysis. It is argued that the similarities in these series demonstrate a high degree of consistency and therefore credibility.The general fluctuations in wheat and barley sales in these East Anglian markets are related to production, but differences between the various markets are analysed in terms of a hypothesis that sets the farmers' decisions as to where and to whom to sell the grain within the context of the general farm economy, relating them to the balance between the sale and carriage price for grain on the one hand and the need for and cost of farm inputs on the other. The paper ends with suggestions of other areas of research where these Corn Returns could prove valuable.     

Over and under: children navigating terrain in the East Anglian fenlands

ABSTRACT

Drawing on fieldwork in three primary schools in East Cambridgeshire, UK, this paper explores children’s relationships with the places where they live, and the ways in which those relationships are mediated by play, exploration, and narrative imagination. Challenging assumptions of a ‘bubble-wrap generation’ which seem to discount the possibility that children today are able to experience the outdoor environment as a safe space with which they can build a living connection, we explored spaces which children deem particularly important in their lives. Through walks along routes planned by children, we look at how movement over the fens offered them an opportunity to express how and why particular places matter, what they see happening there, and what they expect to happen in the future. We reflect on the mutually constitutive relationship between kinship and experience of place, and argue that children’s sense of the stable and bounded landscape limits their sense of environmental variation in the fens. Yet, this exploration leads to the question: what lies under the surface of the land we move across? We therefore consider the relationship between presentism in children’s lives and the imagination of what lies underfoot.     

李汝珍年谱

<镜花缘>的作者李汝珍,字松石,直隶大兴(今属北京市)人,长期定居海州之板浦(今属江苏省连云港市).其生平史料极为匮乏,给研究其作品带来莫大困难.笔者不揣愚陋,拟在前人已做工作基础上,就有关现有资料草成一简谱,谨以就正于识者.乾隆二十八年(1763),大约生于此年.     

范祖禹年谱简编

范祖禹(1041-1098),北宋中期著名历史学家,生于仁宗庆历元年,卒于哲宗元符元年,年五十八.祖禹史学著作宏富,其单独撰述的《唐鉴》十二卷,是祖禹史学的代表作.祖禹参与编修《资治通鉴》十五年,对《资治通鉴》的成书作出了重大贡献.     

宋张文节公(知白)年谱

一、宋张文节公(知白)年谱序 宋张文节公讳知白,字用晦,沧州清池人.其生平立朝大节,详于<宋史>本传.综公一生为国为家,惟忠惟孝.     

The historicity of Jordan Fantosme's chronicle

A reassessment of the literary and aesthetic value of his Chronicle, undertaken in the course of preparing a new edition of that work, shows Jordan Fantosme to be vastly different from the feeble versifier, unable even to dispense accurately the twelve syllables of an Alexandrine line, he has sometimes been taken for. He is a highly competent and innovating prosodist and a talented story-teller quite capable of inventing or manipulating episodes for stylistic reasons, as is shown by reference to three of the vivid historical vignettes for which the Chronicle is frequently and somewhat misleadingly praised. It is suggested that historians should show caution before accepting as factually true incidents detailed by Jordan Fantosme which are not supported from other sources.     

The Anglian Cathedral of North Elmham,Norfolk

DISPERSED REFERENCES to weights and balances in England dating to the late Saxon period (9th to 11th centuries) are collated and assessed. A classification of types is presented, and comparisons drawn with Irish and Scandinavian material.     

The early section of the Worcester chronicle

The Latin chronicle traditionally attributed to Florence of Worcester is examined, and it is suggested that its early portion, down to the end of the reign of Æthelred the Unready, was compiled at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire during the last two decades of his reign. The repercussions of this on the transmission of the vernacular texts of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle are explored.     

The early section of the Worcester chronicle

The Latin chronicle traditionally attributed to Florence of Worcester is examined, and it is suggested that its early portion, down to the end of the reign of Æthelred the Unready, was compiled at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire during the last two decades of his reign. The repercussions of this on the transmission of the vernacular texts of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle are explored.     

The historicity of Jordan Fantosme's chronicle

A reassessment of the literary and aesthetic value of his Chronicle, undertaken in the course of preparing a new edition of that work, shows Jordan Fantosme to be vastly different from the feeble versifier, unable even to dispense accurately the twelve syllables of an Alexandrine line, he has sometimes been taken for. He is a highly competent and innovating prosodist and a talented story-teller quite capable of inventing or manipulating episodes for stylistic reasons, as is shown by reference to three of the vivid historical vignettes for which the Chronicle is frequently and somewhat misleadingly praised. It is suggested that historians should show caution before accepting as factually true incidents detailed by Jordan Fantosme which are not supported from other sources.     

白行简年谱

说明:本谱所参朱金城《自居易年谱》、顾学颉《白居易年谱简编》、宋陈振孙《白文公年谱》、清汪立名《白香山年谱》,首见用全称,后用简称,即"朱谱""顾谱""陈谱""汪谱".