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
