Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Abbreviations xii
5. Introduction 1
6. THE LANDSCAPE
7. Explaining Regional Landscapes: East Anglia and the Midlands in the Middle Ages 11
8. The Castle Landscapes of Anglo-Norman East Anglia: A Regional Perspective 33
9. Imagining the Unchanging Land: East Anglians Represent their Landscape, 1350–1500 52
10. THE URBAN SCENE
11. Understanding the Urban Environment: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Norwich 68
12. Lawyers and Administrators: The Clerks of Late-Thirteenth-Century Norwich 83
13. Financial Reform in Late Medieval Norwich: Evidence from an Urban Cartulary 99
14. A Little Local Difficulty: Lynn and the Lancastrian Usurpation 115
15. Health and Safety at Work in Late Medieval East Anglia 130
16. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
17. Hundreds and Leets: A Survey with Suggestions 153
18. The Rebellion of 1075 and its Impact in East Anglia 168
19. East Anglian Politics and Society in the Fifteenth Century: Reflections 1956–2003 183
20. RELIGION
21. Twelfth-Century East Anglian Canons: A Monastic Life? 209
22. ‘Leave my Virginity Alone’: The cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Norwich. In pursuit of a pragmatic piety 225
23. Swaffham Parish Church: Community building in fifteenth-century Norfolk 246
24. LITERARY CULTURE
25. Battling Bishops: Late Fourteenth-Century Episcopal Masculinity Admired and Decried 272
26. Social Contexts of the East Anglian Saint Play: The Digby Mary Magdalene and the late medieval hospital? 287
27. Devotion to Drama: The N-Town Play and religious observance in fifteenth-century East Anglia 302
28. Two Travellers’ Tales 318
29. Index 333