Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland, 950 - 1150, Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2016. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 208 pages, heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs, cloth-bound with a colour dustwrapper. This is the second in a chronological series of volumes based on weekend conferences at Rewley House in Oxford, concerning places of worship in Britain and Ireland from the late Roman period to the present. This volume covers the age of reform, during which western Christianity acquired most of its distinctive features: the diocesan system of administration, the parish and the foundation and spread of the monastic orders which were to be such an important feature of the central middle ages. Leading architectural historians contribute to this scholarly volume. After the prelims (vi pages) there are eleven essays. Eric Fernie contributes an introduction; John Harper examines liturgy and music; Marie-Pierre Gelin writes on the monastic cathedrals; Julian Luxford on Benedictine art and architecture); Lyn Coppack on Cistercian monasteries; Richard Fawcett on the Tironensians; Paul Everson and David Stocker on the Premonstratensians at Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire; Richard Oram on Northern monasteries and schools; P. S. Barnwell on the cure of souls; Tomás Ó Carragáin on buildings of worship in Ireland and Barnwell again provides a conclusion . The book concludes with an index . The book is heavily illustrated.