Part I. Introduction: 1. The purpose and scope; 2. The materials; 3. The arrangement of the lists; Part II. Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 1377–1540: 4. The Benedictine houses; 5. Independent houses; 6. Dependencies; 7. Alien priories; 8. The Cluniac houses; 9. The Grandmontine houses; 10. The Cistercian houses; 11. The Carthusian monks; 12. The Augustinian canons; 13. The Premonstratensian canons; 14. The Gilbertine canons and nuns; 15. The Trinitarian houses; 16. Monasteries of bonhommes; 17. Unidentified orders; 18. The nuns; Corrigenda and addenda to volume ii (2001).
This final volume of the Heads of Religious Houses series takes the lists from 1377 to 1540.
David M. Smith is Emeritus Professor, University of York.
Review of the hardback: 'David Smith's immensely impressive effort of research has produced a definitive study which will be useful for decades: that is perhaps the greatest accolade one can pay to a book in the current publish-or-perish environment.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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