Product Description: The English Benedictine Cathedral Priories offers a detailed study of nine monastic communities. Joan Greatrex follows the lives of the young men, only some of whom are known by name, from the day of their arrival at the monastery to the moment of their death or departure...read more

Depicts the lives of English and Irish saints during the sixth and seventh centuries and describes the early history of the Christian Church

Product Description: A case study examining the history of a house of English Augustinian canons, this book reveals the ways in which Plympton Priory formed connections with the laity, the episcopacy, the secular clergy, and the Crown in the late Middle Ages.

Product Description: Although hundreds of dependent priories were founded across medieval Europe, they remain little studied and much misunderstood. Usually dismissed as just administrative units, many were in fact genuine religious houses set up for spiritual reasons...read more

Product Description: This three-volume work describes the origin, flowering and decline of one particular monastic school during the 50 years which followed the reception into England of the Benedictine reformation which had swept Northern Europe during the middle years of the 10th century...read more

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Product Description: This is the first full scholarly study since 1902 of the Gilbertine order and its founder, St. Gilbert of Sempringham. The Gilbertines were the only native English monastic order, and highly unusual in their provision for both nuns and canons...read more

Product Description: This classic work offers the first comprehensive, systematic catalogue of all the medieval religious establishments of England and Wales. The lists of monastic houses (including an appendix for all known pre-Conquest houses) give dates of foundation and dissolution and information on population, wealth and other data (with the authority, medieval or modern, for all the information provided) and there are maps and a substantial introduction...read more

Product Description: The spiritual and material concerns of England's great religious houses, from ecstasy to accounting, fashioned medieval society more deeply than the modern observer can readily grasp. Through manuscript records and the fragments of once unequalled architecture, the author gives a vivid and meticulous account of medieval monasticism in all its aspects...read more