The Prelate in England and Europe, 1300-1560

MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. ELIZABETH A. NEW is Reader in Medieval History at Aberystwyth University, and has published widely on Christocentric devotion, the material culture of medieval religion, and medieval seals and sealing practices. GWILYM DODD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham, UK. MARTIN HEALE is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Introduction - Martin Heale
The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England - Gwilym Dodd
Prelates and the Alien Priories - Benjamin Thompson
Cardinals in the Court of Francis I - Cédric Michon
An Abbot and His Books in Late Medieval and Pre-Reformation England - James G. Clark
Prelates and the Provision of Books: Bishop John Carpenter's Carnary Library - Wendy Scase
The Bishops and the Printers: Henry VII to Elizabeth - Felicity M Heal
Treasure, Material Possessions and the Bishops of Late Medieval England - Christopher Woolgar
Episcopal Embodiment: the Tombs and Seals of Bishops in Medieval England and Wales - Elizabeth A. New
Cistercian Abbots as Patrons of Art and Architecture: Northern England in the Late Middle Ages - Michael Carter
Cistercian Abbots in Late Medieval Central Europe: Between the Cloister and the World - Emilia Jamroziak
Monastic Attitudes to Abbatial Magnificence in Late Medieval England - Martin Heale
Lollard Views on Prelates - Anne Hudson