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Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours / by Farmer, Sharon A.

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 : Martin's town : from unity to duality -- Martinopolis (ca. 371-1050) -- Excluding the center : monastic exemption and liturgical realignment in tours -- Part 2 : Marmoutier -- History, legitimacy, and motivation in Marmoutier's literature for the Angevins -- Marmoutier and the salvation of the Counts of Blois -- Individual motivation, Collective responsibility : reinforcing bonds of community -- Preservation through time : historical consciousness at Marmoutier -- Part 3 : The chapter of Saint-Martin -- The corporate identity of the canons of Saint-Martin -- Saint Martin's diocese : the appropriation of Episcopal symbols -- Martin's new town : dominance and resistance in Châteauneuf.…”
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Plympton Priory a house of Augustinian Canons in south-western England in the late Middle Ages / by Fizzard, Allison D.

Table of Contents: “…The founding of Plympton Priory : background and context -- Episcopal support for the new foundation : donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and their circle -- Building the endowment : lay benefactors, their motives, and their gifts -- Managing the inheritance : gains, losses, and challenges in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries -- Maximizing the inheritance : Plympton Priory and its churches and chapels -- Plympton Priory and the laity : challenges to the authority of the priory -- The regular and the secular : Plympton Priory and its connections to the secular clergy -- The canons of Plympton Priory -- The patronage case : the crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory -- Dissolution.…”
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