This volume brings together, for the first time, the remarkably detailed accounts of the sixty-five religious houses in London and Middlesex that were originally published by the Victoria County History in 1909 and 1969. These range from the larger and better known houses, such as Westminster abbey, to the many small cells and hospitals that were founded in and around London in the centuries before the Reformation. New material has been added for every house in the form of brief guides to recent research, along with revised lists of the heads of these institutions up to the Dissolution. There is also an entirely new introduction, which explores the significance of the religious houses in the spiritual and social life of the city and county during the half millennium of their existence.

The Editors:Caroline M. Barron is Professorial Research Fellow in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Matthew Davies is Director of the Centre for Metropolitan History, and Reader in London History, at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

Published by the Centre for Metropolitan History and Victoria County History, Institute of Historical Research
ISBN 978 1 905165 12 4; Hardcover; 210×297 mm; 352 pp; illus.

Price £20.00 (+ £2.00 postage)