The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377–1540

by Edited by David M. Smith

• ISBN13: 9780521369930
• ISBN10: 0521369932
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Originally published in 2008, this final volume of the Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales series takes the lists of monastic superiors from 1377 to the dissolution of the monastic houses ending in 1540 and so concludes a reference work covering six hundred years of monastic history. In addition to surviving monastic archives, record sources have also been provided by episcopal and papal registers, governmental archives, court records, private, family and estate collections. Full references are given for establishing the dates and outline of the career of each abbot or prior, abbess or prioress, when known. The lists are arranged by order: the Benedictine houses; the Cluniacs; the Grandmontines; the Cistercians; the Carthusians; the Augustinian canons; the Premonstratensians; the Gilbertine order; the Trinitarian houses; the Bonhommes; and the nuns. An introduction discusses the use and history of the lists and examines critically the sources on which they are based.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The purpose and scope

The materials

The arrangement of the lists

Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 1377-1540

The Benedictine houses

Independent houses

Dependencies

Alien priories

The Cluniac houses

The Grandmontine houses

The Cistercian houses

The Carthusian monks

The Augustinian canons

The Premonstratensian canons

The Gilbertine canons and nuns

The Trinitarian houses

Monasteries of bonhommes

Unidentified orders

The nuns

Corrigenda and addenda to volume ii (2001)

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