@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt5vj7zd.9,
 ISBN = {9781843839316},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt5vj7zd.9},
 abstract = {The notion that the history of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds after the Norman Conquest was unusual is not new. William of Malmesbury in hisGesta pontificumdescribed St Edmund as ‘the first of the saints of the country’.¹ And in theGesta regumhe wrote that the saint’s abbey was remarkable both for its capacity to attract patronage and to repulse tax-collectors:By these arts he has so engaged the loyalty of all the inhabitants of Britain that anyone thinks it a privilege to enrich his monastery by even a penny. Even kings, the lords of other men,},
 author = {David Bates},
 booktitle = {Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {5--21},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {THE ABBEY AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST: AN UNUSUAL CASE?},
 year = {2014}
}