Download or read book Monastic Wales written by Janet Burton and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monastic Wales - new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political and economic context of the religious houses of Wales between the Norman conquest in the eleventh century, and the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth.