Duffy, Eamon (2005). The stripping of the altars: Traditional religion in England, c.1400-c.1580 (2ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p.124. ISBN 0-300-10828-1. OCLC 60400925. Joseph, James R. (2016). Sarum Use and Disuse: A Study in Social and Liturgical History (Thesis). University of Dayton. Coleman, Joyce (2007). "Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal—And Patron of the Gower Translations?". In Bullón-Fernández, María (ed.). England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th–15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.135–165. doi: 10.1057/9780230603103_8. ISBN 978-0-230-60310-3. Rutherfurd invents four to six fictional families and tells the stories of their descendants. Using this framework, he chronicles the history of a place, often from the beginning of civilisation to modern times – a kind of historical fiction inspired by the work of James Michener. [8] Rutherford's epic spans from Antiquity to the 20th Century and the need to propel you through the countless decades means adjacent chapters are often separated by up to 2 centuries in timeline. Human mortality simply cannot withstand such savage time-hopping , and so characters can't and don't last long enough to make an impact.

Dearmer, Percy (1907). The parson's handbook: containing practical directions both for parsons and others as to the management of the Parish Church and its services according to the English use, as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer (7ed.). London: Oxford University Press. pp.226–241. This blog was largely inspired by the work of Augustus Welby Pugin, the father of the Gothic revival. The man deserves his own sub-section. Here's what I've written on him so far. You know, settling into a doorstopper like Sarum, that you're in for the long haul, and in my case, almost a month and a half. Edward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe. He has two children. All early buildings in the castle would have been of timber, and the oldest surviving stone structure, the keep, was probably built early in the reign of Henry I (1100–35). In about 1130, however, the castle was made over to Roger, Bishop of Sarum and regent for Henry I during the king's absences in Normandy.Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882 [45 & 46 Vict. Ch. 73], reprinted in Robert Hunter's The Preservation of Places of Interest or Beauty, App.A: "The Ancient Monument Protection Acts", p.37. University Press (Manchester), 1907. Hosted at Wikisource. Accessed 3 Jan 2014. Vanessa Montfort and Edward Rutherfurd, recipients of the XI International Historical Novel Prize "City of Zaragoza" ". Zaragoza City Council News. 20 May 2006 . Retrieved 5 March 2016.

This is truly a jewel of a book, the first book by Rutherfurd in his line of epic history-oriented novels that span the centuries of a whole country or a single city. For me, it's the second I read by the author (the first one being The Princes of Ireland). It is truly amazing; though, just like the scope of the storyline, I can barely start to explain why. Even after the Church of England was established separate from the Catholic Church, the Canterbury Convocation declared in 1543 that the Sarum Breviary would be used for the canonical hours. [9] [10] Under Edward VI of England, the use provided the foundational material for the Book of Common Prayer and remains influential in English liturgies. [11] Mary I restored the Use of Sarum in 1553, but it fell out of use under Elizabeth I. The modern fame of the Use of Sarum is to a great extent an accidental product of the political and religious preoccupations of 19th-century English ecclesiastics and ecclesiologists. The Use certainly deserves attention and respect as an outstanding intellectual achievement, but it is far from unique, and the fascination that it has exerted still threatens to limit rather than increase our understanding of the medieval English Church. [1] Sarum (also titled Sarum: The Novel of England) is a work of historical fiction by Edward Rutherfurd, first published in 1987. It is Rutherfurd's literary debut. It tells the story of England through the tales of several families in and around the English city of Salisbury, the writer's hometown, from prehistoric times to 1985. [1] Characters [ edit ]

On the cover of the copy of Sarum that I own, The Toronto Star states that "Rutherfurd reminds us that we are all part of a long line of human experience." I couldn't agree more. In spite of interest in the Sarum Use, its publication in Latin sources from the sixteenth century and earlier has inhibited its modern adoption. Several academic projects are gradually improving its accessibility. From 2009 to 2013, Bangor University produced a series of films and other resources as part of The Experience of Worship research project. [15] [16] In 2006, McMaster University launched an ongoing project to create an edition and English translation of the complete Sarum Use with its original plainsong, resulting in the publication of over 10,000 musical works, and expected to be completed in 2022. [17] Sarum ritual [ edit ] Illustration from a manuscript on the Sarum Rite, c. 1400

Sarum starts with the building of the mound that eventually would become Stonehenge and follows the adventures of the Sarum families all the way up to 1985. Sarum changes from Breton to Roman to Norman, etc. and the book shows how the families deal with these changes. It is more of a soap opera with a good historical setting. I enjoyed reading about the changes and how it affected the families that lived there.

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A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes rise and fall both economically and politically, but the land triumphs over the passage of time and the ravages of humans. Rutherfurd has told the story of the land he was born in and has told it well. The verbosity of a Michener is missing, but all the other elements are present, from geology and archaeology to a rich story of human life. Highly recommended.' a b c d e f "Salisbury". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council . Retrieved 5 November 2021.

At times Sarum was a pleasure to read, following the cleverly intertwined lives of the Mason, Godfrey and Porter families through the generations. At other times I felt that it was a chore, a challenge, a marathon - and this time it wasn't going to beat me!!! If history lessons were like this at school, it would have been a lot more interesting. this is social and political history combined, and although we meet kings and queens, they mostly have cameo roles or are merely mentioned in passing. The great players in this tale are the common people, the merchants, soldiers and adventurers in every era who get caught up in the great events of their day. English liberty: the tradition of rebellion, America as it could have been, and America as it should be It is William the Conqueror’s recognition of Old Sarum’s potential shortly after the Conquest that has left the greatest mark on Old Sarum. A motte was thrown up in the centre of the hillfort, creating an inner set of fortifications, with a huge outer bailey wrapped around this inner core. Cheung Salisbury, Matthew (2015). The secular liturgical office in late medieval England. Medieval Church Studies. Vol.36. Turnhout. doi: 10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.112246. ISBN 978-2-503-54806-7. OCLC 895714142. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)Three Roman roads from the north and east converged outside the east gate of the hillfort, and two sizeable Romano-British settlements were also established outside the ramparts. Little is known of this period, though it has been suggested that in the early Roman period a military fort was set up within the earthworks, with a civilian settlement outside. [1] this one follows the format that the author uses in all his work so far, he tells the story using ordinary folk who go through the momentous times in history. I also think that there was an ever so slight preoccupation with sex. It seems that even in the shallower chapters (Such as the highly rushed "Encampment"), the author dedicated an unneeded amount of detail to the bodies, orgasms, and lustful preoccupation of the sometimes otherwise flat characters than was needed. It was at no time vulgar, but after a while one begins to wonder how different sex in 1944 could be from sex in 1480, or 1290, or Roman times...etc. What I thought was going to be a visceral preoccupation with mating that the prehistoric times required turned out to be a thread throughout all of the ages that did not fade as much as I would have thought at first.