A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume I, Herbert^+

A History of the County of GloucesterVolume IV: The City of Gloucester\nAuthor(s): N. M. Herbert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Early English Text Society\nISBN-13: 9780197227718, 978-0197227718\nSynopsis\nThe volume describes thirteen hundred years in the life of the city of Gloucester from the late 7th century [url] to the mid 1980s. William the Conqueror's order for the Domesday survey at his Christmas council at Gloucester in 1085, the spectacu-lar architectural achievements of the monks and their masons at St. Peter's abbey in the 14th century, and the city's resistance to the siege which turned the course of the Civil War in 1643 are events of nationalsignificance familiar to students of English history. Less well known is the complex story of development in which those events are landmarks. The volume describes how the Saxon borough, formed in the shell of Roman colonia at a crossing of the river Severn, became in the early Midd.