This book reviews the research that has been generated by the Abbey complex on the eastern cliff-top, and relates it to the 'heritage' context, the subject of a major new initiative by English Heritage and Scarborough Borough Council.
Includes essays on the pre-Conquest monasteries of Whitby and Ripon; the architecture of Selby, Kirkstall and Rievaulx Abbies and Holy Trinity Yok; and the production and collection of manuscripts in 12th- and 13th-century Augustinian houses.