Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The place of the mensa; 2. The episcopal church in the kingdom; 3. The cathedral priories: Bath and Wells, Canterbury, Carlisle, Coventry, Durham, Ely, Norwich, Rochester, Winchester, Worcester; 4. The secular cathedrals: Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lincoln, London, Salisbury, York; 5. The chapter as community.

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A study of the reformation in ecclesiastical politics in twelfth-century England.

Reviews

"In sum, the author is erudite, the work significant, and the general arguments convincing." Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies "This monograph is the first comprehensive study of the long and complicated history of the mensa episcopalis." "In the main, this is an important study, which will be fundamantal for all future work on the relations between English bishops and their chapters in the period after the Norman Conquest." Marjorie Chibnall, Albion "...this is an important study, which will be fundamental for all future work on the relations between English bishops and their chapters in the period after the Norman Conquest." Albion