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Texts
R. H. C. Davis, ed.
The Kalendar of Abbot Samson of Bury St. Edmunds and Related Documents. (hb) £8.00
G. R. Elvey, ed.
Luffield Priory Charters. (hb, 2 vols.) £7.00
Hugh Feiss, OSB, ed. & trans.
Essential Monastic Wisdom: Writings on the Contemplative Life. (hb) £6.00
Marion Gibbs, ed.
Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London. (hb) £20.00
W. T. Mellows and P. I. King, eds.
The Book of William Morton, Almoner of Peterborough Monastery 1448-1467; intro. C. N. L. Brooke. (hb) £12.00
Rosalind Ransford, ed.
The Early Charters of Waltham Abbey, 1062-1230. (hb) £30.00
William P. Stoneman, ed.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 5: Dover Priory. (hb) £35.00
Reference
Carlos A. Moreira Azevedo
Ordem dos eremitas de Santo Agostinho em Portugal (1256-1834): Edição da Colecção de Memórias de Fr. Domingos Vieira, OESA. (pb) £10.00
Frank Bottomley
The Explorer’s Guide to the Abbeys, Monasteries and Churches of Great Britain. (hb) £6.00
Roy Midmer
English Mediaeval Monasteries 1066-1540: A Summary. (hb) £10.00
H. Ernest Roberts
Notes on the Medieval Monasteries and Minsters of England and Wales. (hb) £8.00
Secondary sources
[No author].
The Benedictines in Britain. (pb) £5.00
[No Author]
What Montserrat Is: A Mountain, A Shrine, A Monastery, 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50
Mick Aston
Monasteries. (pb, Know the Landscape series) £9.00
Michael Barrett, OSB
The Scottish Monasteries of Old: A brief account of the houses which existed in Scotland, before the protestant Reformation, for monks following the Rule of St. Benedict. (hb) £10.00
Geoffrey Baskerville
English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries. (hb) £6.00
Léon Côte
Un moin de l’an mille: Saint Odilon, Abbé de Cluny de 994 à 1049. (hb) £8.00
Jean Décarreaux
Monks and Civilization, From the Barbarian Invasions to the Reign of Charlemagne. (hb) £8.00
Eleanor Shipley Duckett
The Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism. (pb) £6.00
Seiriol Evans
The Medieval Estate of the Cathedral Priory of Ely: A Preliminary Survey. (pb) £7.00
Rose Graham
An Essay on the English Monasteries. (pb) £5.00
S. F. Hockey
Quarr Abbey and its Lands 1132-1631. (hb) £10.00
P. J. Huggins
Waltham Abbey: Monastic Grange and Outer Close Excavations, 1970-1972. (pb) £6.00
David Jones
Your Book of Abbeys. (hb) £5.00
Sotiris Kadas
Mount Athos: An illustrated guide to the monasteries and their history. (pb) £12.00
David Knowles
From Pachomius to Ignatius: constitutional history of the religious orders. (hb) £25.00
John Koumoulides and Christopher Walter
Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments at Aghia in Thessaly, Greece: Art & Architecture of the Monastery of Saint Panteleimon; foreword by Steven Runciman. (pb) £8.00
Dom Jean Leclercq
Analecta Monastica, deuxième sèrie. (pb) £30.00
Peter Levi
The Frontiers of Paradise: A Study of Monks and Monasteries. (pb) £6.00
Lester K. Little
Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France. (hb) £20.00
Claude Lougnot
Cluny: Pouvoirs de l’an mille. (hb) £10.00
Terence P. McLaughlin
Le tres ancien droit monastique de l’occident: Etude sur le développement général du monachisme et ses rapports avec l’Eglise séulière et le monde laïque de saint Benoît de Nursie à saint Benoît d’Aniane. (pb) £15.00
Andrew MacLeish, ed.
The Medieval Monastery. (pb) £20.00
Michael W. McLellan
Monasticism in Egypt: Images and Words of the Desert Fathers. (hb) £35.00
Janet D. Martin
The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey. (hb) £6.00
Santiago Cantera Montenegro, OSB
Estudios de historia y espiritualidad monástica. (pb) £30.00 for 2‑vol. set
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision. (hb) £6.00
John R. H. Moorman
The Franciscans in England 1224-1982. (pb) £6.00
Walter Nigg
Warriors of God: The Great Religious Orders and their Founders. (hb) £9.00
Derrick Pratt
The Dissolution of Valle Crucis Abbey; 2nd edn. (pb) £6.00
C. A. Ralegh Radford
The Pictorial History of Glastonbury Abbey. (pb) £4.00
William J. Short
The Franciscans. (hb) £15.00
A. H. Thompson
English Monasteries. (hb) £5.00
F. Vandenbroucke, OSB.
Pour l’histoire de la théologie morale: La morale monastique du XIe au XVIe siècle. (pb) £6.00
PeterWatkins
Bolton Priory and its Church. (pb) £3.00
G. W. O. Woodward
The Dissolution of the Monasteries. (pb) £2.00
Herbert B. Workman
The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal, from the Earliest Times down to the Coming of the Friars. (hb) £6.00
Geoffrey N. Wright
Discovering Abbeys and Priories. (pb) £3.50
Books & journals containing related material
[Journal].
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol. LVI, no. 133 (May 1983). (pb) £2.50
[Journal].
Early Medieval Europe. Vol. 6, no. 1 (1997). (pb) £7.50
[Journal].
Medieval History, vol. 1, no. 2 (1991). (pb) £4.50
[Journal].
Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies;, no. 54 (Feb. 1972). (pb) £2.00
[Journal].
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society; vol. XXV, part III: new series, centenary volume (1960). (pb) £6.00
[Journal].
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society; Sixth Series, 1 (1991). (hb) £6.00
[Journal].
Word and Spirit, 12 (1990): St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153).£6.00
[Sale Catalogue, no. 1036].
Bookhands of the Middle Ages: Medieval Manuscript Leaves Principally from a Collection Formed in the 19th Century. (pb) £10.00
[No Author].
A Guide to Glastonbury and its Abbey: A Short History of the Abbey Ruins and other Notable Buildings; together with Ground Plan. (pb) £4.50
Geoffrey Ashe
King Arthur’s Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury. (hb) £6.00
W. St. Clair Baddeley
Hailes Abbey: A Property of the National Trust. (pb) £4.00
Ross Balzaretti
The Politics of Property in Ninth-Century Milan: Familial Motives and Monastic Strategies in the Village of Inzago. (pb) £6.00
Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.
Social Life in Early England: Historical Association Essays. (hb) £8.00
Vincenzo Berardis
Italy and Ireland in the Middle Ages. (hb) £10.00
Richard Britnell, ed.
Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages. (hb) £12.00
Rev. Walter Budgen and Walter H. Godfrey
Wilmington Priory: Architectural Description & Historical Notes with a Note on the "Long Man". (pb) £4.50
James P. Carley
Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous. (hb) £6.00
William A. Christian, Sr
Doctrines of Religious Communities: A Philosophical Study. (hb) £12.00
Helen Clarke
The Archaeology of Medieval England. (hb) £15.00
Kenneth John Conant
Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200, 2nd edn. (hb) £10.00
Glyn Coppack and Peter Fergusson
Rievaulx Abbey. (pb) £1.50
O. E. Craster
Tintern Abbey, Gwent/Abaty Tyndryn; 2nd edn. (pb) £4.50
H. W. C. Davis, ed.
Essays in History presented to Reginald Lane Poole. (hb) £10.00
Margaret Deanesly
A History of the Medieval Church 590-1500, 9th edn. (pb) £5.00
Frank Delaney
A Walk in the Dark Ages. (hb) £6.00
A Walk in the Dark Ages. (pb) £8.50
Dana Delap
Celtic Saints. (pb) £1.50
Paul Diemer
Aelred of Rievaulx. (pb) £4.50
J. T. Driver
Cheshire in the Later Middle Ages 1399-1540. (hb) £15.00
Finn-Einar Eliassen and Geir Atle Ersland, eds.
Power, Profit and Urban Land: Landownership in Medieval and Early Modern Northern European Towns. (hb) £9.00
Joan Evans
Life in Medieval France, 3rd edn. (pb) £6.50
(ed.): The Flowering of the Middle Ages. (pb) £7.00
Richard Fawcett
(w/ David McRoberts & Fiona Stewart): Inchcolm Abbey and Island. (pb) £3.00
Martin Foreman, ed.
Further Excavations at the Dominican Priory, Beverley, 1986-1989. (hb) £10.00
R. Gilyard-Beer
Cleeve Abbey, Somerset. (pb) £3.50
Cédric Giraud & Martin Morard, eds.
Universitas scolarium: Mélanges offerts à Jacques Verger par ses anciens étudiants. (pb) £35.00
Patrick Greene
Norton Priory: The Archaeology of a Medieval Religious House. (hb) £20.00
Peter Harrison
Castles of God: Fortified Religious Buildings of the World. (hb) £15.00
Richard Hodges, ed.
San Vincenzo al Volturno 2: The 1980-86 Excavations, Part II. (pb) £25.00
R. W. Hunt, W. A. Pantin, R. W. Southern, eds.
Studies in Medieval History presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke. (hb) £15.00
William Holden Hutton
The Influence of Christianity upon National Character illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the English Saints; 2nd edn. (hb) £5.00
E. F. Jacob
Essays in Later Medieval History. (hb) £4.50
Terry Jones and Alan Ereira
Medieval Lives. (hb) £10.00
Elaine Kaye
Missenden Abbey: A Short History; 2nd edn. (pb) £3.00
K. C. King
Selected Essays on Medieval German Literature. (hb) £7.50
Roger Sherman Loomis
The Grail, from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. (pb) £5.00
L. Th. A. Lorié SJ
Spiritual terminology in the Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii, with reference to fourth and fifth century monastic literature. (pb) £30.00
Bryce D. Lyon, ed.
The High Middle Ages 1000-1300. (pb) £7.00
Fiona MacDonald
The Medieval Facts of Life. (hb) £6.00
James McKinnon, ed.
Man and Music: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, from Greece to the 15th Century. (hb) £20.00
Rosamund McKitterick, ed.
(w/ Lida Lopes Cardozo, eds.): Lasting Letters: An Inscription for the Abbots of St. Albans. (pb) £8.00
Conleth Manning
Clonmacnoise. (pb) £5.00
Janet D. Martin
The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey. (hb) £6.00
Mary Mauchline
(w/ Duff Hart-Davis, Hugh Meller): Buckland Abbey, Devon. (pb) £5.00
(w/ Lydia Greeves): Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, North Yorkshire. (pb) £2.50
Richard Muir
The National Trust Guide to Dark Age and Medieval Britain 400-1350. (hb) £6.00
W. F. Mumford
Wenlock in the Middle Ages. (pb) £7.00
Glending Olson
Literature as Recreation in the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
A. W. Oxford
Guide to Fountains Abbey. (pb) £4.00
Reyna Pastor, Isabel Alfonso Antón, Ana Rodríguez López, Pablo Sánchez Léon
Poder monastico y grupos domesticos en la Galicia Foral (siglos XIII-XV): La casa, la comunidad. (pb) £9.00
Benjamin Polk
Christchurch Priory. (pb) £3.00
Richard Quick, ed.
Discover Norman Britain: Nine Norman Heritage Trails. (pb) £4.00
F. J. E. Raby and P. K. Baillie Reynolds
Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk; 2nd edn. (pb) £4.00
Keith Randell
Henry VIII and the Reformation in England; 2nd edn. (pb) £5.00
Pierre Riché
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne. (pb) £8.50
J. S. Richardson and Marguerite Wood; rev. C. J. Tabraham
Melrose Abbey; rev. C. J. Tabraham. (pb) £5.00
David M. Robinson and Colin Platt
Strata Florida Abbey/Talley Abbey. (pb) £4.00
Conrad Rudolph
Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job. (hb) £15.00
Nigel Saul, ed.
England in Europe 1066-1453. (hb) £5.00
Katharine Scherman
The Flowering of Ireland: Saints, Scholars and Kings. (hb) £3.50
Alastair Service
The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman, A Guide and Gazetteer. (hb) £3.50
The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman, A Guide and Gazetteer. (pb) £5.00
R. W. Southern
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Joanna Story
Lindisfarne Priory. (pb) £5.00
Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman
Cadfael Country: Shropshire & the Welsh Border; intro. Ellis Peters. (hb) £15.00
A. Hamilton Thompson
Lindisfarne Priory, Northumberland. (pb) £4.50
Richard Tilbrook
Buckfast Abbey. (pb) £4.50
Rolf Toman, ed.
El románico: Arquitectura, escultura, pintura. (hb) £12.00
Lesley Twomey, ed.
Faith and Fanaticism: Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain. (hb) £6.00
Vallombrosan Benedictine Monks of Saint Apollinare in Classe; rev. Vanda Frattini Godoni
Basilica of S. Apollinare in Classe: Illustrated Art Guide. (pb) £4.50
Leonard von Matt & Marie-Humbert Vicaire
St. Dominic: A Pictorial Biography. (hb) £10.00
Albert E. Webb
Glastonbury Abbey: A Hasty Story of the Abbey and a Descriptive Guide to the Abbey Ruins. (pb) £4.00
Jeffery W. Whitelaw
Hertfordshire Churches and Other Places of Worship. (pb) £5.00
Schafer Williams, ed.
The Gregorian Epoch: Reformation, Revolution, Reaction? (pb) £6.00
Diana Wood, ed.
Women and Religion in Medieval England. (pb) £12.50
Charles R. Young, ed.
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance. (pb) £5.00
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