The Register of Thetford Priory: Part 2: 1518-1540

9780197261613

Hardback, published 20 March 1997

562 pages, frontispiece, 4 pp plates
24.3 x 16.3 x 3.8 cm, 1.036 kg

The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years. This edition publishes the accounts for the years 1518-1540, in which can be traced Thetford Priory's strenuous attempts to survive. The volume also contains biographical and other appendices and full indexes. Part 1 (019-7261604), which covers the period 1482-1517, and Part 2 together provide an invaluable resource for historians of Norfolk and of monastic life in the run up to the Reformation.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]