{"product_id":"the-rites-of-durham-9780854440825","title":"The Rites of Durham","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe importance of the \u003ci\u003eRites of Durham\u003c\/i\u003e as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the \u003ci\u003eRites\u003c\/i\u003e  in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary, William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices contains a full edition of the related text which describes the windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder (1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form ofa paper roll. The volume is completed by a comprehensive index.","brand":"William Claxton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280292589819,"sku":"9780854440825","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780854440825_34eb9414-5a11-46de-90ae-f5aba6807bf5.jpg?v=1772483132","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-rites-of-durham-9780854440825","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}