The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Joseph A. Gribbin. The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, Volume XVI.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer. 2001. Pp. xviii, 283. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-799-8.

Although often overshadowed in the standard accounts by the more familiar families of the Benedictines and Cistercians, the historical importance of the Premonstratensian order in England, which by the time it reached the peak of expansion in the mid-thirteenth century possessed some thirty houses up and down the country from Northumberland to Devon, has always ...

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