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CONTENTS 6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 12 ABBREVIATIONS 14 INTRODUCTION: Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages 16 The Meeting of the Worlds 24 1 The Social Networks of Late Medieval Welsh Monasteries 26 2 Cistercian Hospitality in the Later Middle Ages 40 3 Cistercians and Border Conflicts: Some Comparisons between the Experiences of Scotland and Pomerania 55 4 ‘Not a thing for a stranger to enter upon’: The Selection of Monastic Superiors in Late Medieval and Early Tudor England 66 Religious Houses and their Patrons and Benefactors 84 5 Patronage, Prestige and Politics: The Observant Franciscans at Adare 86 6 The Augustinian Priory of Wombridge and its Benefactors in the Later Middle Ages 98 7 The Rising Price of Piety in the Later Middle Ages 110 Female Communities: Nuns, Abbesses and Prioresses 126 8 Looking for Medieval Nuns 128 9 ‘Quhat say ye now, my lady priores? How have ye usit your office, can ye ges?’: Politics, Power and Realities of the Office of a Prioress in her Community in Late Medieval Scotland 139 Monasteries and Education 158 10 Monasteries and Secular Education in Late Medieval England 160 11

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Burton, Janet E.,Stöber, Karen.
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