Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations List of contributors Introduction Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain 1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark 2. 'Like a mother between father and sons.' The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries - Martin Heale 3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh 4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David Austin Part II: Religious and laity 5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050-1230 - Edel Bhreathnach 6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300-1539 - Michael Carter 7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross 8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx's Dramatisation of Xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton 9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin 10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew Prescott Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world 11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls - Kimm Curran 12. 'As for a nun': corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding 13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records - Veronica O'Mara Bibliography of Janet Burton's publications Abbreviations to the index Index Tabula Gratulatoria