Product Description: This is a long-awaited edition of three twelfth-century surveys and thirty charters, relating to the estates of Shaftesbury Abbey, which was the richest nunnery in England. The documents provide a significant contribution to our understanding of economic, social and monastic life in twelfth-century England...read more

Product Description: This is a critical edition of six twelfth-century surveys of the vast estates of Glastonbury Abbey, five of which are printed for the first time. They deal with both the monastic household and the Abbot's lordship as a tenant-in-chief...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)