Search Constraints
Search Results
-
2019
Book
The medieval priory and hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate suburb: excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007
Spitalfields Market was the the site of the Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, later known as St Mary Spital. Large areas of the medieval precinct have been explored, making this by far the most intensively investigated medieval hospital – and one of the most extensively investigated...Harward, Chiz ; Holder, Nick ; Phillpotts, Christopher ; Thomas, Christopher
-
2013
Book
Religion in medieval London: the archaeology of belief
Religious belief was central to the lives – and deaths – of all medieval Londoners. Archaeology sheds light on many aspects of that belief: from organised religion, both Christianity and Judaism, to superstition or witchcraft; places of worship, from the smallest parish churches to the great cathedral of St Paul;...Barber, Bruno ; Thomas, Christopher ; Watson, Bruce
-
2005
Book
The royal palace, abbey and town of Westminster on Thorney Island: archaeological excavations (1991-8) for the London Underground Limited Jubilee Line Extension Project
The palace and abbey of Westminster has been the pre-eminent royal, religious and governmental centre in England since the 11th century – home of English monarchs until the reign of Henry VIII and then of the House of Commons. The abbey was a royal church, site of the coronations of...Thomas, Christopher ; Cowie, Robert ; Sidell, Jane
-
2002
Book
The London Charterhouse
This monograph on the London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1371 just outside the walled City, includes recent excavation evidence of the inner court of the Charterhouse. The result is a new, fully illustrated account of the development of the monastery, the pre-monastic use of the site as a...Barber, Bruno ; Thomas, Christopher
-
1997
Book
Excavations at the priory and hospital of St Mary Spital, London
In 1197, a modest hospital was founded on the fringes of the City of London. It grew to become one of the most significant institutions for the care of London's sick poor in medieval times. Exactly 800 years later, following extensive archaeological excavations and research, the Museum of London Archaeology...Thomas, Christopher ; Sloane, Barney ; Phillpotts, Christopher