"This book provides a timely and original overview of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and its longer term affects on the social and physical landscape of Eng

Takes its place as perhaps the finest available study of a house for women religious. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWThe fifteenth-century cartulary of the Benedictin

This book traces the development of monasticism in England, Scotland and Wales from the last half century of Anglo-Saxon England to 1300. It explores the nature

Challenges the orthodox view that lay patronage of monasteries dwindled in significance throughout the middle ages.