Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Writing Techniques in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England: The Role of the Sicilian and Papal Letter Collections as Practical Models for the Shaping of Royal Propaganda
- The Great Bardney Abbey Scandal, 1303–18
- A Reassessment of the Loyalty of the Household Knights of Edward II
- Ramon Durand of Toulouse: A Lawyer Turned Knight in the Service of the Kings of England
- Urban Identity and Political Rebellion: London and Henry of Lancaster's Revolt, 1328–29
- ‘The Obscure Lives of Obscure Men’: The Parliamentary Knights of the Shires in the Early Fourteenth Century
- The Five Giants: Institutional Hierarchy and Social Provision in Later Medieval Leicestershire
- The Mariner in Fourteenth-Century England
- Dying beyond the Seas: Testamentary Preparation for Campaigning during the Hundred Years War
- Richard II and the Monasteries of London
- Index
- FOURTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Richard II and the Monasteries of London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Writing Techniques in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England: The Role of the Sicilian and Papal Letter Collections as Practical Models for the Shaping of Royal Propaganda
- The Great Bardney Abbey Scandal, 1303–18
- A Reassessment of the Loyalty of the Household Knights of Edward II
- Ramon Durand of Toulouse: A Lawyer Turned Knight in the Service of the Kings of England
- Urban Identity and Political Rebellion: London and Henry of Lancaster's Revolt, 1328–29
- ‘The Obscure Lives of Obscure Men’: The Parliamentary Knights of the Shires in the Early Fourteenth Century
- The Five Giants: Institutional Hierarchy and Social Provision in Later Medieval Leicestershire
- The Mariner in Fourteenth-Century England
- Dying beyond the Seas: Testamentary Preparation for Campaigning during the Hundred Years War
- Richard II and the Monasteries of London
- Index
- FOURTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Summary
By the time of Richard II's accession to the throne in 1377, large parts of the city of London and its suburbs were occupied by ecclesiastical and monastic precincts. St Paul's Cathedral was prominent in the west part of the city and the Benedictine abbey of St Peter in Westminster; near to each was a collegiate royal free chapel, St Martin le Grand in the city and St Stephen at Westminster. In the north-east part of the city lay the Benedictine nunnery of St Helen, Bishopsgate. The Cluniacs were represented by Bermondsey Priory to the south of the River Thames. The priory of St John of Jerusalem at Clerkenwell was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller in England, the head house of the English Langue (or section) of the order and the residence of the prior of England. Several monasteries belonged to the Augustinian order, including Holy Trinity Priory near Aldgate, St Bartholomew's Priory and St Bartholomew's Hospital in Smithfield, the priory and hospital of St Mary Spital to the north of Bishopsgate, and St Mary Overy Priory in Southwark, within the diocese of Winchester. Holywell Priory in Shoreditch and the Priory of St Mary at Clerkenwell were houses of Augustinian canonesses, although contemporaries sometimes confused them with Benedictine nunneries. Medieval hospitals were essentially religious institutions which cared for the sick and the poor.
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- Fourteenth Century England VII , pp. 197 - 224Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012