Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages. - Fizzard, Allison D. (Leiden Brill, 2008)
The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
Keywords: Augustinian Canons -- England -- History; Monasticism and religious orders -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; 271.4 <41 PLYMPTON> -- Augustijnen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--PLYMPTON; England -- Church history -- 1066-1485.; Plympton Priory (Devon, England) -- History