Description: Analysis of the patronage of Benedictine monasteries has much to reveal about both monastic life and material culture of the time.
Brief description: JULIAN LUXFORD is Professor in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.
Review Quotes: In many ways a model book. It is a model of careful scholarship, of caution in its conclusions, of thoroughness in its research, in the way it neatly mortars a sturdy brick to the existing architecture of Benedictine scholarship.-- "ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY"