Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Prologue: Before the Monastery
- 1 From Máeldub to Aldhelm
- 2 Aldhelm's community
- 3 Royal patronage and exploitation (710–960)
- 4 Malmesbury and the late Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform movement
- 5 Responding to the Conquest (1066–1100)
- 6 William of Malmesbury and Queen Matilda
- 7 The ascendancy of Bishop Roger of Salisbury
- 8 The Abbey and the Anarchy
- 9 The dispute with the bishops of Salisbury (1142–1217)
- 10 A self-confident age: the Abbey in the thirteenth century
- 11 The Despenser years and the criminal career of Abbot John of Tintern
- 12 Thomas of Bromham and the Eulogium Historiarum
- 13 After the Black Death
- 14 The abbots of the fifteenth century
- 15 The Tudor Abbey
- Epilogue: After the departure of the monks
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Prologue: Before the Monastery
- 1 From Máeldub to Aldhelm
- 2 Aldhelm's community
- 3 Royal patronage and exploitation (710–960)
- 4 Malmesbury and the late Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform movement
- 5 Responding to the Conquest (1066–1100)
- 6 William of Malmesbury and Queen Matilda
- 7 The ascendancy of Bishop Roger of Salisbury
- 8 The Abbey and the Anarchy
- 9 The dispute with the bishops of Salisbury (1142–1217)
- 10 A self-confident age: the Abbey in the thirteenth century
- 11 The Despenser years and the criminal career of Abbot John of Tintern
- 12 Thomas of Bromham and the Eulogium Historiarum
- 13 After the Black Death
- 14 The abbots of the fifteenth century
- 15 The Tudor Abbey
- Epilogue: After the departure of the monks
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Malmesbury Abbey 670-1539Patronage, Scholarship and Scandal, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023