On Salisbury Cathedral

Abstract

In his last will and testament, dated January 1514, Sir Henry Vernon detailed his intent that a chapel should be founded at the collegiate church of St Bartholomew at Tong, as a final resting place for himself and his wife, and as a chantry for the souls of his family. Completed, it seems, by early 1519, the form of the chapel and its decoration indicates that Sir Henry was commemorated in the artistic language of the very finest contemporary chantry projects. Indeed, a number of the chapel's features are directly copied from the most illustrious of all late medieval chantries: Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey. The chapel, physically and institutionally, also offers insight into the nature of late medieval piety. Unusually, the foundation makes no explicit charitable provision, long established as a central element of the contemporary doctrine of salvation. Yet the chantry-chapel was a physical and institutional appendage to a 'family' mausoleum, whose collegiate function had a strong charitable element. As such, the chapel suggests that, although chantries and tombs were themselves intensely personal, spiritual legacies were viewed in the same way as territorial interests: as inherited familial institutions, which could and should be augmented, rather than enterprises by, and limited to, individuals. In short, through its location, form and decorative scheme, the chapel demonstrates that, whilst numbering in their hundreds by the Reformation, such chapels were far from simply formulaic expressions of piety. Rather, they could serve as the vehicle for the creation of a very specific identity for the chapel's founder.     

On the Life and Death of Earl GodwineGodwine During the Reign of Harold the First and Harthacnut

This report reviews and updates the evidence from the Roman temple site of Pagans Hill, Chew Stoke, North Somerset, which was partly excavated between 1949 and 1953. This includes a revised terminus post quem for the initial building of the temple complex of c. A.D. 262 and an emphasis of the importance of the location of the well on the axis of a planned layout. This is accompanied by a resumé of a reassessment by George Boon of the sculpture of the torso of a dog found in the well in 1951; this was formerly dated to the sixteenth century, but is now redated to the Roman period, and assigned to a group of temple sculpture. This has also stimulated discussion about the dedication of the temple, possibly to Apollo Cunomaglus. There is also a new review by Professor Vera Evison of the Anglo-Saxon glass jar from the temple well and other comparable vessels.

A further excavation in 1986 clarified certain ambiguous points in the earlier work, and added some new data, notably of prehistoric (Neolithic/Early Bronze Age and? Iron Age) use of the site, and of the construction of the Roman well. Finds reports include details of a collection of flints, prehistoric pottery, and industrial refuse; a review of the consolidated coin evidence, the first assessment of any faunal remains from the site and details of objects found by metal-detecting, the latter including a note on a rare coin of Edward the Confessor.     

On Younghusband, the Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French

For years,I have been longing to write a reactionto the book entitled Younghusband,the Last GreatImperial Adventurer.Patrick French,the author of this book,is not aTibetologist but in 1994,Harper Collins published hisbook Younghusband,the Last Great ImperialAdventurer.Soon after that,two different Chinesetranslations came out-both in China and overseas(Zheng Minghua is the translator of the former,veryslightly abridged into one volume,and XinjiangPeople's Publishing House,2000,Urumqi).In 1999,Marco Polo Cultural Career Stock Ltd.published thesecond version in two volumes.     

浅论叶赫那拉氏族谱

叶赫那拉氏族谱与所有满族族谱一样，均渗透着汉族传统的儒家影响，它既是官职承袭的重要凭证，亦为表明身份地位的证明；叶赫那拉氏族谱的收藏以辽宁省为最多．吉林省次之，还有一些善本族谱收藏于北京等地图书馆中，现存大约十几部。研究叶赫那拉氏族谱对研究清初历史及开发叶赫满族地区旅游资源都有较大意义。     

Fifteenth Annual Meeting,Salisbury, 1858

Abstract

Seven cope chests in English churches are described and illustrated. Changes in construction techniques are described, particularly with regard to the use of boards. The chests date to between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries.     

元人文集族谱序跋数量及反映的谱名与地区分布

对现存元人文集中所存族谱序跋数量重新统计,考订出现存元人文集族谱序跋总计233篇,反映的族谱总数是222种。谱名中普遍使用的名称依次是族谱115种、家谱35种、世谱27种,以“族谱”最为流行。族谱反映的地区分布,前6名依次为江西80种、浙江37种、江苏13种,安徽12种、河北10种。元代“族谱”一词的流行和江西地区修谱盛行表明了特定的社会历史特征。