Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors x
5. Preface and Acknowledgements xi
6. List of Abbreviations xii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Prelates and Power
9. The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England 17
10. Prelates and the Alien Priories 50
11. Cardinals at the Court of Francis I 76
12. Part II: Patronage and Learning
13. An Abbot and His Books in Late Medieval and Pre-Reformation England 101
14. Prelates and the Provision of Books: Bishop John Carpenter’s Carnary Library 127
15. The Bishops and the Printers: Henry VII to Elizabeth 142
16. Part III: Identity and Display
17. Treasure, Material Possessions and the Bishops of late Medieval England 173
18. Episcopal Embodiment: the Tombs and Seals of Bishops in Medieval England and Wales 191
19. Cistercian Abbots as Patrons of Art and Architecture: Northern England in the Late Middle Ages 215
20. Cistercian Abbots in Late Medieval Central Europe: Between the Cloister and the World 240
21. Part IV: Attitudes towards Prelacy
22. Monastic Attitudes to Abbatial Magnificence in Late Medieval England 261
23. Lollard Views on Prelates 277
24. Index of People and Places 295
25. Index of Subjects 314
26. YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS: PUBLICATIONS 318