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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 116; Dorset. English: locative name from Canterbury (Kent). See also Scantlebury...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
... . In furniture usage, a partitioned tray on legs. It was used both as a music stand and as a plate and cutlery stand (sometimes called a ‘supper canterbury...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 4449 English (Dorset): habitational name from Canterbury in Kent, named in Old English as Cantwaraburg ‘fortified town ( burgh ) of the people ( wara ) of...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... (see) The primatial see of *England . The see was founded in 597 with the arrival of the mission to convert England, ordered by *Pope Gregory I and led by St *Augustine of Canterbury . While Gregory’s plan called for the establishment of metropolitan sees at *London and *York , Augustine instead chose Canterbury as seat of the southern archbishop. By the end of the 12th century, Canterbury had jurisdiction over the majority of English sees, and had become a centre of intellectual activity. Canterbury’s proximity to London and...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... A cathedral city in Kent. Canterbury bell The cultivated campanula ( Campanula medium ), named after the bells on the horses of the pilgrims riding to Canterbury, as described by Chaucer in his canterbury tales . Canterbury degrees An alternative name for lambeth degrees . Canterbury Tales In his verse tales ( c. 1387 ), Chaucer imagined that he was with a party of around 30 pilgrims setting out from the tabard inn at southwark to pay their devotions to the shrine of St Thomas à Becket at canterbury . According to the Prologue , he intended...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... . In Kent, SE England, chief see of the Church of England . Its history goes back to 597 with the arrival of Augustine in England. He had been ordered to organize the church into two provinces with archbishops at London and York, but Canterbury displaced London from the first. The struggle for precedence with York was ended in Canterbury's favour in the middle of the 14th cent. The archbishop is styled Primate of All England. He is, however, also head of the Anglican Communion (of which the Church of England is a numerically small part),...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...was once again made to Canterbury for the consecration of Gréne (Gregorius). In 1140 , Patrick , a bishop‐elect of Limerick, sought consecration at Canterbury, also probably in the context of a disputed election. At the Synod of Kells ( 1152 ) presided over by the papal legate, Cardinal John Paparo , the diocesan constitution of the Irish church received papal endorsement, without acknowledgement of the fact that Canterbury had consecrated bishops for Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick. It was almost certainly Canterbury's response to this diminution...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... A stand with vertical slats to hold sheet music, popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; originally a low trolley for plates and cutlery for use at supper parties without...
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World Encyclopedia
... City on the River Great Stour, Kent, se England. It is the seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church. The present cathedral (built in the 11th-15th centuries) replaced the original Abbey of St Augustine. Thomas à Becket was murdered in the cathedral In 1170 ; after his canonization, Canterbury became a major pilgrimage centre. It contains the University of Kent ( 1965 ). Tourism is a major industry. Pop. ( 2001 )...
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David Stancliffe
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...Hastings, 1988). I. J. Churchill , Canterbury Administration: The Administrative Machinery of the Archbishopric of Canterbury Illustrated from Original Records (CHS ns 15; 2 vols, 1933). B. L. Woodcock , Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of Canterbury (Oxford Historical Series, 1952). J. W. Lamb , The Archbishopric of Canterbury, from its Foundation to the Norman Conquest (1971). On the Priory and Cathedral: The Statutes of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury (Canterbury, 1925). J. B. Sheppard (ed.), ...
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Rebecca Lenihan
Dictionary Plus Social Sciences
... A region on the eastern side of the South Island of New Zealand. While the western border of the region is the Southern Alps , just east of this mountain range the Canterbury Plains are New Zealand’s largest area of flat land. Protected by the Alps from the prevailing westerly wind, Canterbury is one of the driest regions in New Zealand, although it nevertheless receives frosts in winter and snow in the high country. Prior to the 1850s Canterbury was primarily home to Ngāi Tahu. From 1850 , the London-based Canterbury Association set about recreating...
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Succeeding an important late Iron Age settlement, the civitas ‐capital of Durovernum was laid out on either side of the Great Stour in the later 1st cent. By the later 4th cent. the town was in decay. It re‐emerged as the capital of a pagan English kingdom of Kent , to which St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 597 . Gregory intended the new English church to have archbishops at London and York, but a series of historical accidents led to Augustine and his successors remaining at Canterbury. Canterbury became one of the larger...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Canterbury , Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA 1. Canada (New Brunswick): named after Thomas Manners-Sutton ( 1814–77 ), 3rd Viscount Canterbury, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick ( 1854–61 ). 2. UK (England): the original Roman name, Durovernum, meant ‘Walled Town by the Alder Marsh’ from the Old British duro ‘fort’ or ‘walled town’ and verno ‘alders’ and ‘marsh’. This had been changed to Cantwaraburg by about 900 and by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ) it had become Canterburie. The present name is a modification of these names meaning...
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Sophie Parker-Thomson
The Oxford Companion to Wine (5 ed.)
... (Waitaha in Māori), around Christchurch on the central east coast of new zealand ’s South Island, represents a collection of small, diverse subregions. Waipara, by far the largest subregion, is a 45-minute drive north of Christchurch and includes both clay - and limestone -based Omihi and gravelly Glasnevin soils. The surrounding hills provide a warmer climate than the rest of Canterbury. Inland from Waipara lies the limestone-rich Waikari subregion. The volcanic Banks Peninsula and stony Canterbury Plains subregions to the east and west of the...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...The archbishop of Canterbury was also head of the diocese of Canterbury, which covered eastern and part of central Kent; from the 12 th c. onwards, he ran this through the Archdeacon of Canterbury, making the latter office peculiarly important. Scenes from the life of Thomas Becket . Stained glass at Christ Church, Canterbury, 12th-13th c. J. W. Legg (ed.), W. H. St J. Hope (ed.), Inventories of Christchurch, Canterbury , London, 1902. The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc , D. Knowles (ed.), London, 1951. C. S. Phillips , Canterbury Cathedral in the...
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Alan Simon Esmonde Cleary and David M. Palliser
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...of Roman to Anglo-Saxon Canterbury is vexed; there was activity within the walls for much of the 5th cent., and some of the earliest Anglo-Saxon churches might have late Roman origins. Alan Simon Esmonde Cleary post-Roman Canterbury re-emerged as the capital of a pagan English kingdom of Kent , to which St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 597 . Gregory intended the new English church to have archbishops at London and York, but a series of historical accidents led to Augustine and his successors remaining at Canterbury. It became one of the...
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David Petts
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...settlement within the city walls from the 7th century onwards reflects its growing importance. David Petts C. M. Johns and T. W. Potter , ‘The Canterbury Late Roman Treasure’, AntJ 65 (1985), 312–52. E. Cambridge , ‘The Architecture of the Augustinian Mission’, in R. Gameson . ed., St. Augustine and the Conversion of England (1999), 202–36. N. Brooks and S. E Kelly , Charters of Christ Church Canterbury (Anglo-Saxon Charters 17,...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... . In 597 St Augustine arrived in Canterbury and established his first church there. He had been instructed to organize England in two provinces, with archbishops at London and York , but from the first the place of London was taken by Canterbury. Its archbishop is ‘Primate of All England’. See also Anglican Communion . According to Bede , an existing Roman basilica was consecrated by Augustine as the Cathedral Church of Christ. Destroyed by fire in 1067 , the church was rebuilt by Lanfranc , extended under Anselm , and consecrated in 1130...
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...1915 ), his autobiographical novel, Philip Carey goes to school in ‘Tercanbury’, his name for Canterbury. Maugham's ashes were placed in the wall of the Maugham Library, where there is a simple plaque. Lawrence Durrell spent a little over a year at St Edmund's College in Canterbury, dropping out in December 1927 . Forty‐five years later the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro studied at Canterbury too, taking his degree at the University of Kent. The remains of Canterbury—known as ‘Cambry’ in the book—play an important part in the post‐Armageddon world of Russell...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...of Canterbury (London, 1640, rev. 1703) W. Gostling : A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury (Canterbury, 1774, rev. 6/1825) [useful references] J. C. Cox : Ancient Cities: Canterbury, a Historical and Topographical Account of the City (London, 1905) C. Cotton : The Grey Friars of Canterbury (Manchester, 1924) A. R. Martin : ‘The Dominican Priory at Canterbury’, Archaeol. J. , lxxxvi (1930), pp. 152–77 W. Urry : Canterbury under the Angevin Kings (London, 1967) M. Sparks , ed.: The Parish of St Martin and St Paul Canterbury:...
