Jocelin de Brakelond (–1211)
Auteur de Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Oxford World's Classics)
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Œuvres de Jocelin de Brakelond
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Oxford World's Classics) (1989) — Auteur — 241 exemplaires
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Concerning the Acts of Samson Abbot of the Monastery of St. Edmund (1202) — Auteur — 22 exemplaires
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: a Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson (1903) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
The chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury : a picture of monastic and social life in the XIIth… — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St Edmundsbury: a Picture of Monastic and Social Life in the Xiith… 1 exemplaire
The Chronicle of Jocelyn of Brakelond 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Jocelin de Brakelond
- Date de naissance
- mid 12th century
- Date de décès
- 1211
- Lieu de sépulture
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
- Professions
- monk
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 286
- Popularité
- #81,618
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 8
This is a society totally dominated by the Church, which has both secular and spiritual power and can do anything to the people who live on its land, from chopping their heads off to controlling whether or not their neighbours will say good morning to them. It must have been very difficult for anyone who couldn’t or wasn’t allowed to conform. You can see this most clearly in the way the Jews are treated. It was literally impossible for them to live anything approaching a normal life. Jocelin lists his complains against them and comments “Even more incongruous, during the troubles [when the townspeople were murdering them] their wives and children were sheltered in our pittancery.” Warts and all, those personalities.
This is only 100 years after the Conquest and the society is still clearly divided into Norman and Anglo-Saxon. The Abbot, I take from some of the comments, must have been Anglo-Saxon which explains why the king does not know him when he is elected.
I live not far from the Abbey and was able to visit while reading this and it really brought the ruins and the book alive. Go there if you can. It’s quite an experience to contrast the power structures in the chronicle with the tottering structures left by the Reformation.
The OUP edition is a good one. Excellent notes and an introduction that really is a marvellous piece of scene-setting and may well be a masterpiece of its kind.… (plus d'informations)