Monasteries and society in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages /

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Imprint:Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2008.
Description:252 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history of medieval religion, 0955-2480
Studies in the history of medieval religion.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7302139
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Other authors / contributors:Burton, Janet E.
Stöber, Karen.
ISBN:9781843833864 (hbk.)
1843833867 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:New essays on the monastic life in the later Middle Ages show that far from being in decline, it remained rich and vibrant.
Other form:Online version: Monasteries and society in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages. Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2008
Table of Contents:
  • The meeting of the worlds. The social networks of late medieval Welsh monasteries / Karen Stöber
  • Cistercian hospitality in the later Middle Ages / Julie Kerr
  • Cistercians and border conflicts: some comparisons between the experiences of Scotland and Pomerania / Emilia Jamroziak
  • 'Not a thing for a stranger to enter upon': the selection of monastic superiors in late medieval and Tudor England / Martin Heale
  • Religious houses and their patrons and benefactors. Patronage, prestige and politics: the observant Franciscans at Adare / Colmán Ó Clabaigh
  • The Augustinian priory of Wombridge and its benefactors in the later Middle Ages / Andrew Abram
  • The rising price of piety in the later Middle Ages / Michael Hicks
  • Looking for medieval nuns / Janet Burton
  • "Quhat say ye now, my lady priores? How have ye usit your office, can ye ges?': politics, power and realities of the office of a prioress in her community in late medieval Scotland / Kimm Perkins-Curran
  • Monasteries and education. Monasteries and secular education in late medieval England / James G. Clark
  • 'Make straight in the desert a highway for our God': Carthusians and community in late medieval England / Glyn Coppack
  • Monasteries and open space. Early Franciscan legislation and lay society / Jens Röhrkasten
  • The Austin Friars in late medieval Canterbury: negotiating spaces / Sheila Sweetinburgh
  • Religious houses in the region. Monasteries in medieval Cornwall: mediocrity or merit? / Nicholas Orme
  • Monasteries and society in sixteenth-century Yorkshire: the last years of Roche Abbey / Claire Cross.