Böcker av James G. Clark

A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.

The Deeds of the abbots of St Albans records the history of one of the most important abbeys in England, closely linked to the royal family and home to a school of distinguished chroniclers, including Matthew Paris and Thomas Walsingham. It offers many insights into the life of the monastery, its buildings and its role as a maker of books, and covers the period from the Conquest to the mid-fifteenth century.

Essays provide evidence for the vigour and involvement of religious orders in the years immediately prior to the reformation.

Presents a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. This study demonstrates the vitality of education and learning in English cloisters.