Monastic Renaissance at St Albans

A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain''s greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c.1340-1422), one of the most prolific scholars of the later middle ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell into decline long before the dissolution and that cultural and intellectual activi...