This volume of essays explores the interaction of Church and town in the medieval period in England. Two major themes structure the book. In the first part the

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities

Considers many facets of the medieval church, dealing with institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. The text explores the origins of the diocese a

"This study charts for the first time the history of the 140 or so daughter houses of English monasteries, which have always been overshadowed by the French cel

St Paul's Cathedral stood at the centre of religious life in medieval London and this investigation of its chantries - pious foundations through which donors en