Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216

• Part 1: scope of the work; the nature of the evidence; the ceremony of dedication; chronological patterns 1066-1216; dedications of individual monastic orders; the choice of a patron saint; compound dedications - origins; how dedications were used - flexibility and change. Part 2 Catalogue of monastic houses: the Benedictines; the Benedictine alien priories; the Cluniacs; the Augustinian canons; Cistercian houses with a patron saint additional to the Blessed Virgin; the Premonstratensian canons; houses of Gilbertine canons; priories of Gilbertine canons and nuns; the Carthusians.

`La maison d'édition Boydell & Brewer rend un signalé service aux historiens de l'Eglise avec le large éventail de ses publications ... Nous apprenons donc avec plaisir que cette firme vient de publier les deux premiers volumes d'une nouvelle collection: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, sous la direction de Christopher Harper-Bill.' REVUE D'HISTOIRE ECCLSIASTIQUE, 1990 Binns is to be congratulated on this scholarly and informative catalogue, which will be extremely useful to all working medievalists. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The first systematic investigation' of its subject deserves even higher praise as the most important [recent] contribution to the study of medieval church dedications in England.