Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales
Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781783161805
Subjects: Abbeys; Monastic and religious life; Wales, church history; Wales, history
Description: "A comprehensive illustrated guide to the religious houses of Wales from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. It offers a thorough introduction to the history of the monastic orders in Wales (the Benedictines, Clumacs, Augustinians, Premonstratensians, Cistercians, the military orders and the friars) and to life inside medieval Welsh monasteries and numeries, in addition to providing the histories of almost sixty communities of religious men and women, with descriptions of the standing remains of their buildings."