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Death to the Archivist: John Lakenheath’s Register of Bury St Edmunds
- Author(s):
- Andrew Dunning (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- History, Late Medieval History
- Subject(s):
- Archives--Study and teaching, Archives, Bibliography, Library science, Information science, Middle Ages
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Peasants' Revolt, diplomatics, indexing, manorial administration, Archival studies, Library and information science, Medieval history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6SW6H
- Abstract:
- John Lakenheath reorganized the archives of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the 1370s, a key tool in his administrative work on its estates that was still in disorder after it was sacked by the townspeople in 1327. This culminated in the ‘Lakenheath Registry’ (London, British Library, Harley MS 743), an indexed directory of the Bury charters created in 1379–81. His preface to this book explaining its mode of operation, here edited and translated, provides a glimpse into the mind of a medieval archivist. The book led to personal disaster: he was beheaded by a mob during the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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