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  • Print publication year: 2000
  • Online publication date: March 2008

(d) - East Anglia

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East Anglia corresponds to the medieval diocese of Norwich: Norfolk, Suffolk and south-eastern Cambridgeshire. In Roman times East Anglia was included in the civitas of the Iceni. Our best introduction to the East Anglian towns of the later Anglo Saxon period is Domesday Book. Four places appear as of special economic importance associated with, as we learn from the Liber Eliensis, a special juridical significance: Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich and Thetford. The consideration of Domesday indicates that ordered efforts at economic expansion of the kind of which the most striking example is Abbot Baldwin's extension to Bury were not confined to major towns. An important feature of East Anglia is the foundation of new chartered towns. East Anglia's agricultural economy included the substantial production of wool. Its most important industry was the manufacture of cloth, much of it for export. Some sectors of the East Anglian economy seem to have a history of fairly continuous prosperity in the fourteenth century.

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