Table of Contents

Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. The Historical Framework:
1. The opening of the period
2. Monks and canons at the university, 1300–1450
3. Patrons and architects: Ely and Glouster
4. Portraits of monks
5. Monks and friars in controversy
6. Trends in speculation: Ockhamism, justification and grace
7. Criticism of the religious in the fourteenth century
8. The spiritual life of the fourteenth century
9. Developments within the orders: I
10. Developments within the orders: II
11. The fortunes of the Cluniac houses and the alien priories
12. The loosening of discipline
13. King Henry V
14. More portraits of monks
15. The second century of visitation, 1350–1450
16. The spiritual life of the fifteenth century
Part II. The Institutional Background:
17. Recruitment, employment and the horarium
18. The wage-system and the common life
19. The election and privileges of the superior
20. The numbers of the religious
21. Literary work
22. The monasteries and society
23. Vicarages, the core of souls and schools
24. Public obligations of heads of houses
25. The monastic economy, 1320–1480
26. Monastic libraries
27. Retrospect
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.

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