Contents

pp v-vi

List of illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of contributors

pp xi-xii

Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-8

The Meeting of the Worlds

pp 9-10

1 - The social networks of late medieval Welsh monasteries

pp 11-24

2 - Cistercian hospitality in the later Middle Ages

pp 25-39

3 - Cistercians and border conflicts: Some comparisons between the experiences of Scotland and Pomerania

pp 40-50

4 - ‘Not a thing for a stranger to enter upon’: The selection of monastic superiors in late medieval and Tudor England

pp 51-68

Religious Houses and their Patrons and Benefactors

pp 69-70

5 - Patronage, prestige and politics: The Observant Franciscans at Adare

pp 71-82

6 - The Augustinian priory of Wombridge and its benefactors in the later Middle Ages

pp 83-94

7 - The rising price of piety in the later Middle Ages

pp 95-110

Female Communities: Nuns, Abbesses and Prioresses

pp 111-112

8 - Looking for medieval nuns

pp 113-123

9 - ‘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

pp 124-142

Monasteries and Education

pp 143-144

10 - Monasteries and secular education in late medieval England

pp 145-167

11 - ‘Make straight in the desert a highway for our God’: Carthusians and community in late medieval England

pp 168-180

Monasteries and Urban Space

pp 181-182

12 - Early Franciscan legislation and lay society

pp 183-196

13 - The Austin Friars in late medieval Canterbury: Negotiating spaces

pp 197-210

Religious Houses in the Regions

pp 211-212

14 - Monasteries in medieval Cornwall: Mediocrity or merit?

pp 213-228

15 - Monasteries and society in sixteenth-century Yorkshire: The last years of Roche Abbey

pp 229-240

Index of Religious Houses mentioned in the text

pp 241-248

Index

pp 249-252