Book excerpt: The last abbot of Glastonbury.--English Biblical criticism in the thirteenth century.--English scholarship in the thirteenth century.--Two dinners at Wells in the fifteenth century.--Some troubles of a Catholic family in penal times.--Abbot Feckenham and Bath.--Christian family life in pre-reformation days.--Christian democracy in pre-reformation times.--The layman in the pre-reformation parish.--St. Gregory the Great and England.--Index