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| Subject Areas: | History | |
| Name, Speaker Location & Areas covered: | Mr Peter LEWIS  | Burley in Wharfedale :: All Yorkshire covered |
| Contact & Website: | w: No Website | |
| Subjects: | 1) How the Cistercians helped to rebuild Yorkshire after the Harrying of the North: through wool, metal and don't forget the cheese! 2)Wessex Girls: Aetheflaed, the Lady of the Mercians and Margaret, Saxon Princess, Scottish Queen and Saint. 3) Yorkshires French/Burgundy Connection After the Norman Conquest, the first new Benedictine Abbey in the north was established at Selby by a monk from Auxerre (in Burgundy). Sixty-two years later, two monastic orders headquartered in Burgundy established priories and abbeys in Yorkshire: the Cluniacs (at Pontefract and Monk Bretton) and the Cistercians (at Rievaulx, Roche, Fountains, Sawley, Kirkstall and Meaux). Moreover, the Cistercians' ownership of Rotherham Minster financed their prestigious college in Paris. Peter's talk looks at how these connections came about, their early history and their impact upon the Yorkshire economy. 4) Its not just about vampires! the literary connections of Yorkshire abbeys Whitby Abbey's connection with Bram Stoker's Dracula is famous but there are other less well-known links between Yorkshire abbeys and a range of writers - including Alexandre Dumas, John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott and Jeannette Winterson. Both Dumas and Dryden wrote about the scandalous doings of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who lived in Helmsley and had an unfortunate impact on the Aislabies - owners of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, while the abbot of Jervaulx appears as a character in Ivanhoe. |
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| Availability & Fee: | Anytime Daylight hours only | £50.00 + exs |
| Requirements: | VHS, T or computer projector F, E | Click for requirements explanation |
| Virtual Talk Offered: | No | |
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