Excerpt from The Monastic Legend So much for Nicko's evidence: now for that of the Exeter Registers. Dr. Gasquet argues, with an emphasis which may seem even exaggerated, that the Black Death of 1349 dealt a blow to the monasteries, materially and morally, from which they had not yet recovered at the Dissolution (1. In choosing therefore the first twenty-one years (1327 - 48) of the Register of Bishop Grandisson, perhaps the greatest of all the medieval bishops of Exeter, I am choosing a field which ought to be eminently ...
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Excerpt from The Monastic Legend So much for Nicko's evidence: now for that of the Exeter Registers. Dr. Gasquet argues, with an emphasis which may seem even exaggerated, that the Black Death of 1349 dealt a blow to the monasteries, materially and morally, from which they had not yet recovered at the Dissolution (1. In choosing therefore the first twenty-one years (1327 - 48) of the Register of Bishop Grandisson, perhaps the greatest of all the medieval bishops of Exeter, I am choosing a field which ought to be eminently favourable to Dr. Gasquet. How far this is so, the reader may judge from the history Of three monasteries which I find extracted in my notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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