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Author:   Prof. Mark Stoyle
Publisher:   University of Exeter Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.10cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9780859898775

ISBN 10:   0859898776
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations   Acknowledgments Glossary of archaic words and phrases used in the text and documents Abbreviations                                                                                               1        Introduction Part I: The History of Exeter’s Underground Passages and Aqueduct Systems 2        The Aqueducts of Medieval Exeter, 1226-1420              3        The Development of the New Conduit, 1420-1536          4        After the Dissolution of the Monasteries                           5        The City Aqueducts under the Early Stuarts                     6        After the Restoration                                                         Part II: The Life of the City Aqueducts 7        The Role of the Aqueducts in Exeter’s daily life               Part III: Documents relating to the City Aqueducts The Exeter Receivers and their Accounts                1.       Extracts from the City Receivers’ Accounts, 1424-1603  2.       ‘Outgoings for making of Exeter’s New Conduit’, 1441  3.       Account of Work on the Great Conduit, 1534-35             Notes Bibliography Index

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The book's reliance on both documentary and material evidence ensures a solid foundation of scholarship, while its ability to tell such an interesting tale of urban technology in terms of its impact on humans will appeal to a large audience at home and abroad. -- Maryanne Kowaleski, Professor of History at Fordham University, NY

Author Information

Mark Stoyle grew up in rural mid-Devon, and worked for some years as an archaeologist in Exeter after leaving school.  He was awarded his D. Phil by the University of Oxford in 1992, and is currently Professor of early modern History at the University of Southampton.  He has written many books and articles on religion and politics in Tudor and Stuart Britain, and his particular research interests include: the English Civil War, the history of witchcraft, the history of the early modern town and the history of the South West.  Professor Stoyle is a member of the Council of the Royal Historical Society, and sits on the editorial advisory panel of BBC History Magazine; he has also appeared on dozens of TV and Radio programmes, including 'Who Do You Think You Are?', 'The Great British Story', 'Making History', 'Word of Mouth' and 'The Roots of English'.

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