Martin Heale

The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England

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Produktbeschreibung

The first extended history of the men who presided over medieval England's monasteries, examining monastic structures, lifestyles, and public relations. Heale explores how monastic roles evolved through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to the Dissolution of the monasteries, when monastic superiors surrendered their houses to Henry VIII.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198702535
• ISBN-10: 0198702531
• Artikelnr.: 47864908

Autorenporträt

Martin Heale is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely on the history of the late medieval and sixteenth-century church, with a particular focus on the religious orders. His publications include The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries, Monasticism in Late Medieval England c.1300-1535, The Late Medieval English College and its Context (co-edited with Clive Burgess) and The Prelate in England and Europe, 1300-1560.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Election and Selection
* 2: Abbots and Priors in the Community
* 3: Abbots and Priors as Administrators
* 4: Living Standards and Display
* 5: Abbots and Priors in Public Life
* 6: The External Relations and Reputation of the Late Medieval
Superior
* 7: The Early Sixteenth Century
* 8: Dissolution, Opposition, Accommodation
* 9: Epilogue: The Afterlife of Abbots and Priors in Reformation
England
* Appendix: Abbots and Priors holding High Office in the Henrician
Church, 1534-1547
* Select Bibliography
* Index