MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. ELIZABETH A. NEW is Reader in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University, and has published widely on Christocentric devotion, the material culture of medieval religion, and medieval seals and sealing practices. GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. 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) MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

• Introduction - Martin HealeThe Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England - Gwilym DoddPrelates and the Alien Priories - Benjamin ThompsonCardinals in the Court of Francis I - Cédric MichonAn Abbot and His Books in Late Medieval and Pre-Reformation England - James G. ClarkPrelates and the Provision of Books: Bishop John Carpenter's Carnary Library - Wendy ScaseThe Bishops and the Printers: Henry VII to Elizabeth - Felicity M HealTreasure, Material Possessions and the Bishops of Late Medieval England - Christopher WoolgarEpiscopal Embodiment: the Tombs and Seals of Bishops in Medieval England and Wales - Elizabeth A. NewCistercian Abbots as Patrons of Art and Architecture: Northern England in the Late Middle Ages - Michael CarterCistercian Abbots in Late Medieval Central Europe: Between the Cloister and the World - Emilia JamroziakMonastic Attitudes to Abbatial Magnificence in Late Medieval England - Martin HealeLollard Views on Prelates - Anne Hudson

Attractively produced and illustrated, this volume helps to fill a scholarly gap in the study of the higher clergy of the late-medieval period and will hopefully act as a stimulus to further research.