English Monasteries in the Middle Ages

Today’s free book is a detailed study of English monasteries which features 72 illustrations. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain book available for digitisation.

[Thomas Stanley] R[oger Benn] Littledale Palmer [1889-1948], English Monasteries in the Middle Ages. An Outline of Monastic Architecture and Custom from the Conquest to the Suppression. London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1930. Hbk. pp.233. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Contents

• Preface

1. The Monastic Order in England
2. The Monastery as an Organism
3. The Plan of a Monastery and the Monastic Church
4. The Cistercian Church
5. The Later Monastic Church
6. The Cloister
7. The Extra-claustral Buildings
8. The Master Builder
9. The Building of a Monastery

• List of Works Consulted
• Index of Names and Places