Late medieval monasteries and their patrons : England and Wales, c.1300-1540

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Late medieval monasteries and their patrons : England and Wales, c.1300-1540

Title remainder

England and Wales, c.1300-1540

Statement of responsibility

Karen Stöber

Creator

• Stöber, Karen

Subject

• Electronic books
• Engeland
• England
• History
• Kloosters
• Middeleeuwen
• Monasteries
• Monasteries -- England -- History
• Monasteries -- Wales -- History
• Monastic and religious life -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Monastic and religious life -- Middle Ages
• Monastic and religious life -- Wales -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Patronage
• Patronage, Ecclesiastical
• Patronage, Ecclesiastical -- England -- History
• Patronage, Ecclesiastical -- Wales -- History
• RELIGION -- History
• RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations
• Wales
• Wales
• 600-1500

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

This book challenges the orthodox view that lay patronage of monasteries dwindled in significance throughout the middle ages. Lay patronage of religious houses remained of considerable importance during the late medieval period; but this is the first full-length study dedicated to the subject. Based on a wide range of medieval documentary sources, including wills, monastic registers, inquisitions post mortem, cartularies and episcopal registers, this book traces the descent of these later patrons and assesses their activities, in particular their bequests and benefactions, their involvement in the affairs of their houses, and their burials in the conventual churches; and it argues that the ties which bound the two parties together, whether amicable, indifferent or abusive, continued right up until the Dissolution brought monastic life in England and Wales to an end. KAREN SToÌBER is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Aberystwyth

Member of

• Studies in the history of medieval religion, v. 29

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in the history of medieval religion

Series volume

v. 29