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Winchester, Lichfield, and Hereford
A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield
The Road to Lichfield
Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0802197361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Man Booker Prize–shortlisted first novel and a “searing study of the peculiar state of being in love” (The Sunday Telegraph). In The Road to Lichfield, Penelope Lively explores the nature of history and memory as it is embodied in the life of forty-year-old Anne Linton, who comes to her father’s aid when he is moved into a nursing home in a distant town. As she shares his last weeks, she unexpectedly learns that her father had a mistress. With this new knowledge, Linton must examine the realities of her own life—of her childhood, her marriage—and ask, what secrets has she also kept? Deeply felt and beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated. “Like all of Lively’s best novels, The Road to Lichfield contains beneath its modest veneer great depths of intelligence, perception and feeling.” —The Washington Post Book World
Lichfield
Secret Lichfield
Author: Neil Coley
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-11-15
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1445682109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Secret Lichfield explores the lesser-known history of the Staffordshire city of Lichfield through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
An inquiry into the history and influence of the Lichfield waters: intended to shew the necessity of an immediate and final drainage of the pools
Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad
Author: Andrew Sargent
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2020-07-27
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1912260379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on the period from the seventh to eleventh centuries that witnessed the rise and fall of Mercia, the great Midland kingdom, and, later, the formation of England. Specifically, it explores the relationship between the bishops of Lichfield and the multiple communities of their diocese. Andrew Sargent tackles the challenge posed by the evidential 'hole' at the heart of Mercia by synthesising different kinds of evidence - archaeological, textual, topographical and toponymical - to reconstruct the landscapes inhabited by these communities, which intersected at cathedrals and minsters and other less formal meeting-places. Most such communities were engaged in the construction of hierarchies, and Sargent assigns spiritual lordship a dominant role in this. Tracing the interconnections of these communities, he focuses on the development of the Church of Lichfield, an extensive episcopal community situated within a dynamic mesh of institutions and groups within and beyond the diocese, from the royal court to the smallest township. The regional elite combined spiritual and secular forms of lordship to advance and entrench their mutual interests, and the entanglement of royal and episcopal governance is one of the key focuses of Andrew Sargent's outstanding new research. How the bishops shaped and promoted spiritual discourse to establish their own authority within society is key. This is traced through the meagre textual sources, which hint at the bishops' involvement in the wider flow of ecclesiastical politics in Britain, and through the archaeological and landscape evidence for churches and minsters held not only by bishops, but also by kings and aristocrats within the diocese. Saints' cults offer a particularly effective medium through which to study these developments: St Chad, the Mercian bishop who established the see at Lichfield, became an influential spiritual patron for subsequent bishops of the diocese, but other lesser known saints also focused c
Winchester, Lichfield, and Oxford
Cathedral Antiquities: Winchester. 1817. Lichfield. 1820
