The History of the Town of Malmesbury and of its Ancient Abbey . Together with Memoirs of Eminent Natives allely

Bird, James T., J. E. Jackson, and Mackenzie E. C. Walcott

Verlag: The Author, Malmesbury, 1876

Beschreibung

Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed rose-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 278 with appendices. The front hinge has been reinforced. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Malmesbury is a market town and civil parish in the southern Cotswolds in the county of Wiltshire, England. Technology company Dyson is headquartered in Malmesbury, which remains a market town and became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning focused on and around Malmesbury Abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the Anglo-Saxon period it became the site of a monastery famed for its learning and one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of England, was buried in Malmesbury Abbey when he died in 939. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 26154

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Titel: The History of the Town of Malmesbury and of...

Verlag: The Author, Malmesbury

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag