Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England

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) F. DONALD LOGAN is Professor Emeritus of History at Emmanuel College, Boston, and Honorary Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. 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) Michael Robson is an emeritus fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.

• Introduction: The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England - James G. ClarkAfter Knowles: Recent Perspectives in Monastic History - Joan GreatrexA Novice's Life at Westminster Abbey in the Century before the Dissolution - Barbara HarveySyon and the New Learning - Vincent GillespieFranciscan Learning, 1450-1540 - Jeremy CattoThe Friars Minor in York, 1450-1540 - Michael RobsonMendicants and Confraternity - Robert N SwansonYorkshire Nunneries in the Early Tudor Period - Claire CrossPatterns of Patronage to Female Monasteries in the Late Middle Ages - Marilyn OlivaMonasteries, Society and Reform in Late Medieval England - Benjamin ThompsonThe Planning of Cistercian Monasteries in the Later Middle Ages: the evidence from Fountains, Rievaulx, Sawley and Rushen - Glyn CoppackDeparture from the Religious Life During the Royal Visitation of the Monasteries, 1535-36 - F. Donald LoganThe Ex-Religious in Post-Dissolution Society: Symptoms of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder? - Peter Cunich

In their variety of subjects and approaches [these essays] provide revealing insights into the current directions of scholarly thinking about the last century of the religious orders in medieval England....The impression left is of the vitality of current research.