Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

by Adam Lucas (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $153.07

  This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians.