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Michael Aston.
Monasteries.
Published London: B. T. Batsford, 1993.
Series: Know the Landscape.
ISBN 0713467096;
ISBN-13: 9780713467093.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome.
Size: 187x245x14mm.
Page count: 176pp, monochrome illustrations throughout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some shelf wear on the covers, otherwise doesn’t look heavily used; spine uncreased, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £9.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 577g.

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Contents: Monasteries in the landscape; Earliest monasteries; Anglo-Saxon monasteries before the Vikings; Saxon & Norman monasteries; The new orders; Monastic precincts; Monastic estates, lands & buildings; The later Middle Ages & the Dissolution; From the Dissolution to the present day.

Notes: references at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 65, monochrome
Maps & plans: 46
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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See also | Monasticism | Archaeology | Landscape |

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