The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England

Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation.

List of contents

Introduction: The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England - James G. Clark
After Knowles: Recent Perspectives in Monastic History - Joan Greatrex
A Novice's Life at Westminster Abbey in the Century before the Dissolution - Barbara Harvey
Syon and the New Learning - Vincent Gillespie
Franciscan Learning, 1450-1540 - Jeremy Catto
The Friars Minor in York, 1450-1540 - Michael Robson
Mendicants and Confraternity - Robert N Swanson
Yorkshire Nunneries in the Early Tudor Period - Claire Cross
Patterns of Patronage to Female Monasteries in the Late Middle Ages - Marilyn Oliva
Monasteries, Society and Reform in Late Medieval England - Benjamin Thompson
The Planning of Cistercian Monasteries in the Later Middle Ages: the evidence from Fountains, Rievaulx, Sawley and Rushen - Glyn Coppack
Departure from the Religious Life During the Royal Visitation of the Monasteries, 1535-36 - F. Donald Logan
The Ex-Religious in Post-Dissolution Society: Symptoms of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Peter Cunich

About the author

James G. Clark

Product details

• Authors: James G. Clark
• Assisted by: James G Clark (Editor), James G. Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2002
• EAN: 9780851159003
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-900-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 231 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Medi; Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Geschichte der Religion, Religiöse Institutionen und Organisationen, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations, Religion - Church Life, HISTORY / Medieval