The religious orders in pre-Reformation England / James G. Clark -- After Knowles: recent perspectives in monastic history / Joan Greatrex -- A novice's life at Westminster Abbey in the century before the dissolution / Barbara Harvey -- Syon and the new learning / Vincent Gillespie -- Franciscan learning in England, 1450-1540 / Jeremy Catto -- The grey friars in York, c. 1450-1540 / Michael Robson -- Mendicants and confraternity in late medieval England / R.N. Swanson -- Yorkshire nunneries in the early Tudor period / Claire Cross -- Patterns of patronage to female monasteries in the late Middle Ages / Marilyn Oliva -- Monasteries, society and reform in late medieval England / Benjamin Thompson -- The planning of Cistercian monasteries in the later middle ages: the evidence from fountains, Rievaulx, Sawley and Rushen / Glyn Coppack -- Departure from the religious life during the royal visitation of the monasteries, 1535-1536 / F. Donald Logan -- The ex-religious in the post-dissolution society: symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder? / Peter Cunich.