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A Mid-Fourteenth Century Contract for the Choir Roof of Glastonbury Abbey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Christopher Wilson
Affiliation:
History of Art Department, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6BT, UK. E-mail: .

Abstract

The Anglo-Norman French indenture discussed in this paper is apparently the first medieval English building contract to be discovered since L F Salzman published almost all the known examples of this kind of text in the 1967 second edition of Building in England Down to 1540: a documentary history. A short commentary sketches the significance of the document for architectural history.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2008

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