Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king in the richness of its archives and not least in its role as a mediator of medical texts and studies. All these aspects and more are amply illustrated in this collection by specialists in their fields. The balance of the whole work and the care taken to place the individual topics in context has resulted in a satisfying whole which places Abbot Baldwin and his abbey squarely in the forefront of eleventh-century politics and society. Professor Ann Williams.