Monasticon Anglicanum ; Or The History of the Abbies, and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches with Their Dependencies in England and Wales
William Dugdale
Published 1817
906 pages
Free monastery & convent books
Books set in monasteries and convents enter communities apart from the world. Bells, silence, routine and faith shape the days, and human passions find their way in all the same. Historical mysteries and contemplative novels both make good use of the cloister. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Washington Irving
Published 1835
784 pages
Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
Ingulf
Published 1893
608 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
William Dugdale
1819 · 1846 edition
682 pages
Cloister Life in the Days of Coeur de Lion
Herbert Railton, Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, A. Quinton
Published 1892
232 pages
Memorials of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains
John Richard Walbran, James Raine (historien).)
1862 · 1878 edition
322 pages
On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury
Montague Rhodes James
Published 1895
242 pages
Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester, from the Winchester Cathedral Archives
Priory of St Swithun
Published 1892
568 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
William Dugdale
Published 1846
844 pages
Cartulary of Cambuskenneth
Cambuskenneth Abbey
Published 1872
678 pages
The Monastic Annals of Teviotdale
James Morton
Published 1832
424 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
William Dugdale
Published 1718
650 pages