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Malmesbury Abbey 670-1539 Patronage, Scholarship and Scandal.

The book tells the story of Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire, a major centre of cultural and royal patronage, from the time of Aldhelm in the late seventh century to the Dissolution in 1539.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McAleavy, Tony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Malmesbury Abbey 670-1539
  • Malmesbury Abbey 670-1539
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Illustrations
  • Prologue: Before the monastery
  • 1 From Máeldub to Aldhelm
  • 2 Aldhelm's community
  • 3 Royal patronage and exploitation (710-960)
  • 4 Malmesbury and the late Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform movement
  • 5 Responding to the Conquest (1066-1100)
  • 6 William of Malmesbury and Queen Matilda
  • 7 The ascendancy of Bishop Roger of Salisbury
  • 8 The Abbey and the Anarchy
  • 9 The dispute with the bishops of Salisbury (1142-1217)
  • 10 A self-confident age: the Abbey in the thirteenth century
  • 11 The Despenser years and the criminal career of Abbot John of Tintern
  • 12 Thomas of Bromham and the Eulogium Historiarum
  • 13 After the Black Death
  • 14 The abbots of the fifteenth century
  • 15 The Tudor Abbey
  • Epilogue: After the departure of the monks
  • Bibliography