Week 8: Monastic archaeology

Monasteries
 
• Graham-Campbell and Valor 408-411; Carver and Klapste 457-467
• see a distribution map of some of the sites mentioned in this lecture
• see a view of the Irish monastery of Clonmacnoise (with a detailed view of the tower)
• see the plan and images of the refectory, crypt church, and a reconstruction of the Benedictine abbey at San Vincenzo al Volturno
• for examples of Cistercian houses, see a general view of the Vauclair Abbey (Gothic church, drainage system, and fountain) and two views of the Pontigny Abbey (exterior and interior)
• for examples of priories of canon orders, see the ruins of the Augustinian priory of Bolton and the Premonstratensian house at Dryburgh
 
Convents 

• visit the Benedictine nunnery of Romsey; see a plan of the Templar preceptory at South Witham and a view of the excavations at Roystone Grange; visit Whalley Abbey (Lancashire),Kirkstall Abbey (Yorkshire), and Waltham Abbey (Essex)