Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages

Allison Fizzard

Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
Published
27 November 2007
Pages
292
ISBN
9789004163010

Plympton Priory: A House of Augustinian Canons in South-Western England in the Late Middle Ages

Allison 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 spiritual sources of income became one of the wealthiest houses of Augustinian canons in England. Analysis of surviving records reveals the multiplicity of connections existing between the canons and the laity, the secular clergy, the episcopacy, and the Crown until the priory’s dissolution. The result is a multi-faceted study of the roles played by an Augustinian house in society and within the Church in the late Middle Ages.

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