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The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England (Hardcover)
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The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England (Hardcover)
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The importance of the medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis.
The monastic superiors of late medieval England ruled over
thousands of monks and canons, who swore to them vows of obedience;
they were prominent figures in royal and church government; and
collectively they controlled properties worth around double the
Crown's annual ordinary income. Moreover, as guardians of regular
observance and the primary interface between their monastery and
the wider world, abbots and priors were pivotal to the effective
functioning and well-being of the monastic order. The Abbots and
Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England provides the first
detailed study of English male monastic superiors, exploring their
evolving role and reputation between the fourteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Individual chapters examine the election and selection
of late medieval monastic heads; the internal functions of the
superior as the father of the community; the head of house as
administrator; abbatial living standards and modes of display;
monastic superiors' public role in service of the Church and Crown;
their external relations and reputation; the interaction between
monastic heads and the government in Henry VIII's England; the
Dissolution of the monasteries; and the afterlives of abbots and
priors following the suppression of their houses. This study of
monastic leadership sheds much valuable light on the religious
houses of late medieval and early Tudor England, including their
spiritual life, administration, spending priorities, and their
multi-faceted relations with the outside world. The Abbots and
Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England also elucidates the
crucial part played by monastic superiors in the dramatic events of
the 1530s, when many heads surrendered their monasteries into the
hands of Henry VIII.
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