Presents a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. This study demonstrates the vitality of education and learning in English cloisters. This is likely to prove an important book. Intellectual and institutional history are both greatly advanced in Clark's analysis by being married to one another, and late medieval monastic history is rescued from the slough where it has languished due to the abiding influence of Knowles and Coulton.