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Donington, Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 2020. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tight and unread grade 'A' softcover. Essays and wartime memoirs.

Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Here are the fifteen scholarly essays by the medieval historian Professor Hugh Lawrence, who was well-known for his great books 'Medieval Monasticism' and 'The Friars', but his important and meticulous essays have never been collected before. The volume also contains an appreciation of his contribution to medieval studies by Dr Michael Robson (a substantial essay in its own right), a bibliography of his writings and an index, and an edition of Lawrence's war diary (he was a major in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment during the Burma campaigns of April 1945). Some essays focus on figures such as St Edmund of Abingdon, the learned friar Adam Marsh, the Cistercian scholar Stephen of Lexington and St Richard, bishop of Chichester. Other essays chart the growing significance of the University of Oxford and its relations with the friars and religious orders. The… Leer más