Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Karen Stöber is Researcher and Lecturer at the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia.Julie Kerr was Researcher on the Monastic Wales and the Cistercians in Yorkshire projects.Emilia Jamroziak is Professor of Medieval Religious History and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.

• AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsList of abbreviationsList of contributorsIntroductionPart I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark2. `Like a mother between father and sons.' The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries - Martin Heale3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colman O Clabaigh4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David AustinPart II: Religious and laity5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050-1230 - Edel Bhreathnach6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300-1539 - Michael Carter 7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx's Dramatisation of Xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew PrescottPart III: Women in the medieval monastic world11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls - Kimm Curran12. `As for a nun': corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records - Veronica O'MaraBibliography of Janet Burton's publicationsAbbreviations to the indexIndexTabula Gratulatoria