Sarum

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The modern fame of the Use of Sarum is to a great extent an accidental product of the political and religious preoccupations of 19th-century English ecclesiastics and ecclesiologists. The Use certainly deserves attention and respect as an outstanding intellectual achievement, but it is far from unique, and the fascination that it has exerted still threatens to limit rather than increase our understanding of the medieval English Church. [1] Of the two main 'parts' which the book is split into ('Old Sarum' and 'New Sarum'), I personally found the first one better. The author went into more detail with regard to events, description of landscape, and building up the characters; I actually 'gelled' with those early people much more than I did with the later heirs/heiresses. My favourite characters were Nooma, and cathedral mason Osmund - especially the latter's attempts to avoid the 7 Deadly Sins. I will try and finish it, 'one day', but I cannot imagine how far away 'that day' will be. Far, far, FAR away I'd say.

Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd | Goodreads

Running against the inexorable advances of the plot is the second major focus of interest for the reader: the dramatic irony of historical forgetfulness. Each successive period is almost completely ignorant of the era that has gone before. What the characters do not know, the reader is constantly being reminded of, and history begins to develop a sense of humor and pathos. Thus a poor, storm-beaten vagabond in 1480 prays for a sign from God as to which road he should take on his journey and is treated to a miraculous indicator in the form of a lightning bolt that burns an absolutely straight path across a cornfield (it points to London): "How could he know that buried underneath the cornfield, for a thousand years, a small, metalled Roman road had lain hidden, along which, since it was a perfect conductor, the huge bolt of lightning had earthed itself?" Medieval faith thus rests upon a technical fact shared by the imperial Romans and modern history... Nennius ( attrib.) (1900) [composed after 830AD]. Mommsen, T. (ed.). ' Historia Brittonum , VI. (in Latin) – via Latin Wikisource. The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the liturgical use of the Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation. [1] It is largely identical to the Roman Rite, with about ten per cent of its material drawn from other sources. [2] The cathedral's liturgy was widely respected during the late Middle Ages, and churches throughout the British Isles and parts of northwestern Europe adapted its customs for celebrations of the Eucharist and canonical hours. The use has a unique ecumenical position in influencing and being authorized by Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches.

This is another book that gets 5 stars for being a great big hunk of enjoyable cheese. But it's historical cheese! The story covers major points of British history. The following chapter listing parallels major periods and events: this one follows the format that the author uses in all his work so far, he tells the story using ordinary folk who go through the momentous times in history. Further, the final third abandoned the previously mentioned delightful recurring device, and the reader feels cheated as it had been set up as a device that one expects to see again and again. A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes rise and fall both economically and politically, but the land triumphs over the passage of time and the ravages of humans. Rutherfurd has told the story of the land he was born in and has told it well. The verbosity of a Michener is missing, but all the other elements are present, from geology and archaeology to a rich story of human life. Highly recommended.'

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Numerous other hillforts of the same period can be found locally, including Figsbury Ring to the east and Vespasian's Camp to the north. The archaeologist Sir R.C. Hoare described it as "a city of high note in the remotest periods by the several barrows near it, and its proximity to the two largest stone circles in England, namely, Stonehenge and Avebury." [a] Roman period [ edit ] The Use of Sarum, commonly known as the Sarum Rite: ongoing edition and English translation of the complete Sarum Use The present name seems to be a ghost word or corruption of the medieval Latin and Norman forms of the name Salisbury, such as the Sarisburie that appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086. [1] (These were adaptions of the earlier names Searoburh, [2] Searobyrig, [3] and Searesbyrig, [4] [5] [6] calques of the indigenous Brittonic name with the Old English suffixes - burh and - byrig, denoting fortresses or their adjacent settlements.) The longer name was first abbreviated as Sar̅, but, as such a mark was used to contract the Latin suffix -um (common in placenames), the name was confused and became Sarum sometime around the 13th century. The earliest known use was on the seal of the St Nicholas hospital at New Salisbury, which was in use in 1239. The 14th-century Bishop Wyvil was the first to describe himself as episcopus Sarum. [7] The addition of 'old' to the name distinguished it from New Sarum, the formal name of the present-day city of Salisbury until 2009. Duffy, Eamon (2005). The stripping of the altars: Traditional religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 (2ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p.124. ISBN 0-300-10828-1. OCLC 60400925.Pfaff, Richard W. (2009). "Southern England: Final Sarum Use". The liturgy in medieval England: A history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.412–444. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511642340.019. ISBN 978-0-521-80847-7.