Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages

JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the later Middle Ages and early modern period, most recently The Dissolution of the Monasteries (Yale, 2021) JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history. KIMM CURRAN is an independent researcher. Her expertise is in communities of women religious in Scotland, medieval women's monastic landscapes and heritage, and prosopography. MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. MICHAEL HICKS, the academic director, is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Winchester and author of Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale, 2019), among many other books and articles. Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018).

• IntroductionThe Social Networks of Late Medieval Welsh Monasteries - Karen StoberCistercian Hospitality in the Later Middle Ages - Julie KerrCistercians 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 HealePatronage, Prestige and Politics: the Observant Franciscans at Adare - Colmán Ó ClabaighThe Augustinian Priory of Wombridge and its Benefactors in the Later Middle Ages - Andrew AbramThe Rising Price of Piety in the Later Middle Ages - Michael HicksLooking for Medieval Nuns - Janet BurtonQuhat 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 ScotlandCommunity in Late Medieval Scotland - Kimm CurranMonasteries and Secular Education in Late Medieval England - James G. Clark`Make Straight in the Desert a Highway for our God': the Carthusians and Community in Late Medieval England - Glyn CoppackEarly Franciscan Legislation and Lay Society - The Austin Friars in Late Medieval Canterbury: Negotiating Spaces - Sheila SweetinburghMonasteries in Medieval Cornwall: Mediocrity or Merit? - Nicholas OrmeMonasteries and Society in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire: the Last Years of Roche Abbey - Claire Cross

Add[s] immensely to our historical understanding of the ways in which the medieval monastic community, whether robust and powerful or relatively unknown, engaged with society. [...] An impressive volume telling a fascinating and vibrant story of late medieval monastic culture.