The Coucher Book of Selby: From the Original Ms. in the Possession of Thomas Brooke

by Joseph Thomas Fowler

This two-volume work comprises a fourteenth-century cartulary containing charters and deeds that document the history of Selby Abbey from its foundation under William the Conqueror in 1069 until the mid-fifteenth century. The editor, J. T. Fowler (1834-1924), originally a surgeon, left medicine for the church. He studied at Durham University before becoming a deacon in the Durham diocese and holding posts in the university itself. The contents of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108058566
• ISBN13: 9781108058568
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"