This thesis explores the ways in which lay benefactors in the cities of London and York interacted with their local religious houses through ostensibly pious gifts and what this might indicate about their ideas of law, spiritual belief and practices, and personal piety and charity c.1150-c.1250. The focus is on the cartulary records of four religious institutions. These are the nunnery of St. Mary Clerkenwell and Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, in London; and St. Mary’s Abbey, and St. Leonard’s Hospital in York. Using the charters copied into the cartularies, the thesis argues that through a close reading of the source material, with a focus on grants made for ostensibly pious purposes, it is possible to examine the relationship between lay a...
This thesis considers how religious identities were constructed and expressed in Reformation England...
Medieval indulgences have long had a troubled public image, grounded in centuries of confessional di...
The thesis is concerned with parochial patronage, recruitment of beneficed and unbeneficed secular c...
Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, the London Bridge House institution, which managed t...
This study examines what motivated donors to the Knights Hospitaller throughout the British Isles fr...
This thesis focuses on religious life and devotional attitudes in the fifteenth-century port town of...
This thesis considers the founding of four charitable projects, all designated 'Hospitals': Wandesfo...
This dissertation is a socio-economic analysis of the Knights Hospitallers’ estate management in Lon...
This is a thesis about the ideas and relationships which shaped local religious life, particularly t...
This thesis examines the birth and early years of a new institution, the almshouse, in late-medieval...
This thesis is a study of the Benedictine abbey of Barking in Essex from the tenth to the twelfth ce...
Religious and charitable foundations are often held to have been a sub¬stantial presence in pre-indu...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the twelfth century, the religious order known as the Aug...
This paper surveys the history of philanthropy in the North East of England from the time the North ...
Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on th...
This thesis considers how religious identities were constructed and expressed in Reformation England...
Medieval indulgences have long had a troubled public image, grounded in centuries of confessional di...
The thesis is concerned with parochial patronage, recruitment of beneficed and unbeneficed secular c...
Between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, the London Bridge House institution, which managed t...
This study examines what motivated donors to the Knights Hospitaller throughout the British Isles fr...
This thesis focuses on religious life and devotional attitudes in the fifteenth-century port town of...
This thesis considers the founding of four charitable projects, all designated 'Hospitals': Wandesfo...
This dissertation is a socio-economic analysis of the Knights Hospitallers’ estate management in Lon...
This is a thesis about the ideas and relationships which shaped local religious life, particularly t...
This thesis examines the birth and early years of a new institution, the almshouse, in late-medieval...
This thesis is a study of the Benedictine abbey of Barking in Essex from the tenth to the twelfth ce...
Religious and charitable foundations are often held to have been a sub¬stantial presence in pre-indu...
grantor: University of TorontoIn the twelfth century, the religious order known as the Aug...
This paper surveys the history of philanthropy in the North East of England from the time the North ...
Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on th...
This thesis considers how religious identities were constructed and expressed in Reformation England...
Medieval indulgences have long had a troubled public image, grounded in centuries of confessional di...
The thesis is concerned with parochial patronage, recruitment of beneficed and unbeneficed secular c...