Research Catalog

Title

The friaries of medieval London : from foundation to dissolution / Nick Holder ; with contributions by Ian Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel and Christian Steer.

Author

Holder, Nick (Archaeologist and historian)

Publication

• Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Röhrkasten, Jens
• Betts, Ian M.
• Samuel, Mark Wycliffe
• Steer, Christian

Description

xv, 363 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city's physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These urban monasteries housed 300 or more preacher-monks who lived an enclosed religious life and went out into the city to preach. The most important orders were the Dominican Black friars and the Franciscan Grey friars but London also had houses of Augustine, Carmelite and Crossed friars, and, in the thirteenth century, Sack and Pied friars. This book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses, combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing and describing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts with burial grounds and gardens, it moves on to examine more general historical themes, including the spiritual life of the friars, their links to living and dead Londoners, and the role of the urban monastery. The closure of these friaries in the 1530s is also discussed, along with a brief revival of one friary in the reign of Mary.

Series Statement

Studies in the History of Medieval Religion ; Volume XLVI

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of medieval religion ; v. 46.

Subjects

• Monasteries
• Monasteries > England > London > History > To 1500
• History
• London (England) > Buildings, structures, etc
• To 1500
• England > London > Dalston
• Monastic and religious life > England > London > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Monastic and religious life > Middle Ages
• Buildings

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-351) and index.

Contents

The nine London friaries. The first Black friars in Holborn, c. 1223-86 -- The second Black friars, 1275-1538 -- The third Black friars at St Bartholomew's, 1556-9 -- Grey friars, 1225-1538 -- White friars, c. 1247-1538 -- Austin friars, c. 1265-1538 -- Crossed friars, c. 1268-1538 -- Sack friars, c. 1270-1305 -- Pied friars, 1267-1317 -- The London friars and their friaries. Churches -- Precincts and the use of space -- Architecture and architectural fragments of the London friaries / Mark Samuel -- Floor tiles and building materials from the London friaries / Ian Betts -- Water supply -- Economy -- Spiritual life and education in the London friaries / Jens Röhrkasten -- Burial and commemoration in the London friaries / Christian Steer -- London friars and Londoners -- Dissolution.

Call Number

JFE 19-6610

ISBN

• 9781783272242 (alk. paper)
• 1783272244 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2017446838

OCLC

985639920

Author

Holder, Nick (Archaeologist and historian), author.

Title

The friaries of medieval London : from foundation to dissolution / Nick Holder ; with contributions by Ian Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel and Christian Steer.

Publisher

Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the History of Medieval Religion ; Volume XLVI

Studies in the history of medieval religion ; v. 46.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-351) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Röhrkasten, Jens, contributor.

Betts, Ian M., contributor.

Samuel, Mark Wycliffe, contributor.

Steer, Christian, conhtributor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6610