The Grey Friars in Oxford

An institutional history of the Franciscan friary at Oxford, Part I traces the convent's outward life, property, and activities as reconstructed from surviving records, noting gaps and uneven documentation; Part II assembles biographical notices of friars associated with the house or university, with bibliographies of their works and appendices of original documents and transcriptions. The author sets out methodological limits, explains the exclusion of the friars' scholastic philosophy, and details reliance on municipal, university, and national archives and manuscript catalogues. Topographical evidence is summarized but incomplete, and the volume favors archival reconstruction and prosopographical compilation over a continuous narrative.