Malmesbury Abbey 670–1539 – Patronage, Scholarship and Scandal

Prologue: Before the monastery 1. From Máeldub to Aldhelm 2. Aldhelm's community 3. Royal patronage and exploitation: 710-960 4. Malmesbury and the late Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform movement 5. Responding to the Conquest: 1066-1100 6. William of Malmesbury and Queen Matilda 7. The ascendancy of Bishop Roger of Salisbury 8. The Abbey and the Anarchy 9. The dispute with the bishops of Salisbury: 1142-1217 10. A self-confident age: the Abbey in the thirteenth century 11. The Despenser years and the criminal career of Abbot John of Tintern 12. Thomas of Bromham and theEulogium Historiarum 13. After the Black Death 14. The abbots of Malmesbury: 1396-1480 15. The Tudor Abbey Epilogue: After the departure of the monks Bibliography Index