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Rievaulz Abbey, in the valley of the river Rye on the North Yorkshire moors, was one of the most important and largest of the Cistercian abbeys in England. Rather than simply narrating the history of the abbey for the two centuries, Jamroziak (U. of Edinburgh) focuses on the interaction between it and its social environment, which was formed by the various groups of neighbors, including patrons and their families, lay benefactors, people who lived near the estate of the abbey, and other monasteries in the area. The general interactions between lay society and monks during the High Middle Ages is her underlying context. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
