Abbeys: Their Rise and Fall |
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Abbot Augustinian houses Benedict Benedictine bishop Bolton Priory buildings CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Cambridge to-day Canterbury Carthusian cathedral Chapter House Christianity Cistercian cloister colleges in Oxford deserts difficult to exaggerate Dining Hall diocese dissolution Egypt estates Europe was entering Fall OXFORD UNIVERSITY farm France frater friar Gilbertine Glastonbury Greek and means Henry VIII hundred ideal inhabitants Innocent IV insti Jocelyn Kirkstall land landowners large number last Roman Latin and means living managed to secure medieval monasteries became monastery or nunnery monastic and parochial Monastic institutions monastic property monasticism Monks and nuns Monte Cassino owners Oxford and Cambridge Oxford or Cambridge Papacy parochial system Pope probably R. H. MALDEN Abbeys refectory reforms religion religious houses Rise and Fall Roman Empire ruins Saxon England self-supporting sixteenth century Somerset sometimes Tewkesbury tithes towns usually vineyard vocation wall Western Europe Westminster Wharfedale word comes