Monastic Wales

New Approaches

Edited by Janet Burton, Karen Stöber

Publication date:

30 March 2013

Length of book:

272 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780708325827

Monastic Wales - new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political and economic context of the religious houses of Wales between the Norman conquest in the eleventh century, and the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth.