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Cloister life in the days of Coeur de Lion

Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · 1893 · London : Isbister & company, limited · 52 pictures

A popular history of English monastic life under Richard I, written by H. D. M. Spence-Jones and published in London by Isbister in 1893 for general readers interested in abbeys and medieval religion. Herbert Railton and A. Quinton supply pen-and-ink views of ruined abbeys, chantry screens, vaulted aisles and almshouse courtyards, with scratchy hatched line and bare trees useful as vignettes and chapter headpieces.

Abbeys · Monasticism and religious orders

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