The Friaries of Medieval London av Nick Holder

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<p>with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer.<br/><br/>Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019<br/><br/>The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city's physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These urban monasteries housed 300 or more preacher-monks who lived an enclosed religious life and went out into the city to preach. The most important orders were the Dominican Black friars and the Franciscan Grey friars but London also had houses of Augustine, Carmelite and Crossed friars, and, in the thirteenth century, Sack and Pied friars.<br/>This book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses, combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing and describing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts