Plympton Priory : : a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / / by Allison D. Fizzard.
This book makes a contribution to knowledge of the history of the Augustinian canons in England through a case study of one particular house in the south-west of the country. Plympton Priory in Devon was founded in 1121 by a bishop of Exeter, and through episcopal and lay donations of temporal and s...
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| Superior document: | Brill's series in church history, v. 30 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's series in church history ;
d. 30. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context
- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle
- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts
- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries
- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels
- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory
- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy
- The canons of Plympton Priory
- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory
- Dissolution.