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‌Monastic Research Bulletin

The Monastic Research Bulletin has now been discontinued as digital publishing and social media have overtaken its functions. The MRB was a newsletter which aimed to provide a point of contact between individuals interested in a variety of monastic studies (historical, archaeological, art historical, literary etc).

The Bulletin contains news of academic research in progress, descriptions of new projects, information about the sources for monastic history in national and local repositories, details of theses completed and current, and an annual bibliography of publications on monasticism in Britain. The complete run of the Bulletin is available on this website.

Readers may be interested in The Monastic Estate by Peter Clery (Phillimore 2015), which would have been the subject of a notice in MRB. This flyer gives information about the book and how to obtain it - The Monastic Estate flyer (PDF , 329kb).

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Print copies

Print copies of the Bulletin are also available.

We have copies of Issue 2 (1996) to the present year.

Copies cost £5 + 50p P&P.

Please send cheques, made payable to the University of York, to:

Borthwick Publications
Borthwick Institute for Archives
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

If you would like to pay by card, please contact us.

• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 18 (2012) (PDF , 846kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 17 (2011) (PDF , 1,008kb)‌
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 16 (2010) (PDF , 1,942kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 15 (2009) (PDF , 429kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 14 (2008) (PDF , 4,936kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 13 (2007) (PDF , 317kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 12 (2006) (PDF , 274kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 12 (2006) (PDF , 274kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 12 (2006) (PDF , 274kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 11 (2005) (PDF , 320kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 11 (2005) (PDF , 320kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 10 (2004) (PDF , 347kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 9 (2003) (PDF , 4,974kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 8 (2002) (PDF , 5,246kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 7 (2001) (PDF , 4,233kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 6 (2000) (PDF , 5,052kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 5 (1999) (PDF , 8,327kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 4 (1998) (PDF , 3,530kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 3 (1997) (PDF , 4,893kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 2 (1996) (PDF , 825kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Issue 1 (1995) (PDF , 446kb)‌

Indexes and bibliography‌

• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Subject Index (PDF , 191kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Contributor Index (PDF , 98kb)
• The Monastic Research Bulletin, Consolidated Bibliography (PDF , 153kb)