John Blair has published six books, most recently Playful Song Called Beautiful (University of Iowa Press, 2016) as well as poems and stories in The Colorado Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters, and elsewhere.

• Introduction


• 1: The English and their Christian Neighbours, c.550-650


• 2: Minsters in Church and State, c.650-850


• 3: Church and People, c.650-850


• 4: The Church in the Landscape, c.650-850


• 5: Monastic Towns? Minsters as Central Places, .650-850


• 6: Minsters in a Changing World, c.850-1100


• 7: The Birth and Growth of Local Churches, c.850-1100


• 8: From Hyrness to Local Parish: The Formation of Parochial Identities, c.850-1100


• Epilogue


• Appendix: Three Minor Minsters in the Eleventh Century


• Bibliography


• Index