Download or read book The Abbot s House at Westminster written by Joseph Armitage Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Religious Orders in England written by David Knowles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-09-27 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dom David Knowles surveys the monastic life and activities in the early Tudor period. He examines different abbots, bishops and others that shed new light on the fortunes of the Cistercian abbeys and on the influence upon the monks of the new humanist education.
