Plympton Priory
Subtitle: a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages
By: by Allison D. Fizzard.
Series: Brill's series in church history -- v. 30; Brill's series in church history -- d. 30.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789004163010
Subjects: Augustinian Canons -- England -- History; Monasticism and religious orders -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Plympton Priory (Devon, England) -- History; England -- Church history -- 1066-1485
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context; title: Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle; title: Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts; title: Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries; title: Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels; title: Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory; title: The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy; title: The canons of Plympton Priory; title: The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory; title: Dissolution.