Late Medieval Monasteries And Their Patrons England And Wales C13001540 Karen Stöber by Karen Stöber 9781843832843, 1843832844 instant download after payment.

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 STÖBER is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Aberystwyth
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