The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis. The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over thousands of monks and canons, who
Concise histories of the religious houses of post-Conquest Wales with a full introduction to the history of medieval monasticism in Wales, written by two establ
Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural r