Oxbow says: Subtitled 'A Patronage History', this book examines the commissioning and financing of works of art and architecture in the Benedictine monasteries and nunneries of south-west England from 1300 to the Dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII.
Analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries has much to reveal about both monastic life and material culture of the time.
Analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries has much to reveal about both monastic life and material culture of the time.