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New Perspectives on the Medieval English Church - Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000–1300. By Janet Burton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi+354. $69.95. - Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century England: A Study of the “Mensa Episcopalis.” By Everett U. Crosby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+450. $69.95. - The English Hospital, 1070–1570. By Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Pp. xii+308. - English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages. By H. Leith Spencer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xvi+542.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Peter Heath*
Affiliation:
University of Hull

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