The secular jurisdiction of monasteries in Anglo-Norman and Angevin England

"A study of the monastic honor court affords many new insights into the evolution of royal justice in Anglo-Norman and Angevin. This book shows that under the Conqueror's sons, monastic lords in England regularly looked to their king for support in preserving and protecting their jurisdiction, and the Anglo-Norman kings responded favourably. Later, the legal and administrative reforms of the Angevin kings along with changing patterns of patronage gradually reduced royal support. The author argues that such changes shifted the balance of power within the honorial court toward the tenant and hastened the decline of the monastic honor court in the thirteenth century."--Jacket.