Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first history of Scotland's richest abbey. It describes how religious worship in Angus developed from Pictish Christianity into the new Roman faith encouraged by the foundation of the abbey in 1178, richly endowed by King William. The development of the abbey's estates and wealth through the centuries, its influence on the men and women living on the abbey's lands, and the reasons for the abbey's centrality to medieval Scottish politics, religion and education are all thoroughly explored, ending with a discussion of the sixteenth-century Scottish Reformation, and the parts played by the abbots, the abbey and its religious community in that religious and political revolution.
