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• Dictionnaire des abbayes et monastères : ou Histoire des établissements religieux érigés en tout temps et en tous lieux à la destination des réguliers des deux sexes, contenant: 1o leurs fondations, leurs accroissements et leurs décadences; 2o des renseignements archéologiques, géographiques et topographiques sur les lieux où ils ont été fondés; 3o des notices sur les religieux célèbres qui les ont habités; 4o l'historique de leur destruction ou changement de destination (J.-P. Migne, 1856), by Maxime de Montrond, M. Z., Z. M., abbé Bonnefoy du Bouyon., Charles Lenormant, and J.-P. Migne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Abteien Niederösterreichs (A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn, 1862), by Johann Baptist Hardtmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Christenthums in Oesterreich und Steiermark : seit der ersten Einführung desselben in diese Länder bis auf gegenwärtige Zeit (Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchlandlung, 1840), by Anton Klein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Habsburger Stiftung cistercienser Abtei Neuberg in Steiermark : (ihre Geschichte und ihre Denkmale) (Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1884), by F. S. Pichler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Austrio-Clara-Vallenses : seu Fundationis monasterii Claræ-Vallis Austriæ : vulgò Zwetl, ordinis cisterciensis initium et progressus. Ubi compendioso schemate per modum historiæ universalis fideliter refertur, quidquid ab anno MLXXXIII. usque ad annum MDCXLV. ex archivio, & chronicis Mss. Zwetlensibus, aliorúmque scriptorum authoritate erui poterat, non solùm quod præfatum fundationem, sed & fundatorum progeniem, multorúmque nobilium genealogium, nec non de anno in annum notabiliores, præsertim in Austria, res gestas concernit. Opus in duos tomos distinctum, olim (Typis Wolffgangi Schwendimann Universit. Typographi, 1723), by Bernhard Link (page images at HathiTrust)

• Actes et documents anciens intéressant la Belgique. (Belgique, 1898), by Charles Albert Duvivier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monuments pour servir à l'histoire des provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg (M. Hayez, impr., 1844), by Pierre Baudry, Bernard Henri Maximilien de Varick, Joseph Jean de Smet, Léopold Devillers, Frédéric-Auguste-Ferdinand-Thomas Reiffenberg, Belgium. Notre-Dame Cambron, Hainaut (County), and Namur (Belgium) Notre-Dame (Collegiate church and abbey) (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'abbaye de Villers-en-Brabant au XIIe et XIIIe siècles; étude d'histoire religieuse et économique (A. Dewit, 1909), by Édouard de Moreau and R. Maere (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abbayes et monastères de Belgique; leur importance et leur rôle dans le développement du pays. (G. Van Oest, 1923), by Edouard Michel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Description des ruines de l'abbaye de Villers accompanée de notions curienses sur les usages des monastères cisterciens. (V. Delvaux, 1896), by G. Boulmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monasticon belge (Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890), by Denis de Sainte-Marthe, Ursmer Berlière, Centre national de recherches d'histoire religieuse, and Abbaye de Maredsous (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Monasticon belge (Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890), by Denis de Sainte-Marthe, Ursmer Berlière, Centre national de recherches d'histoire religieuse, and Abbaye de Maredsous (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Histoire du Château, de la Ville et des Seigneurs et Barons de Montpezat et de l'Abbaye de Pérignac (in French; Auch: Impr. L. Cocharaux, 1898), by André de Bellecombe and G. Tholin
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• Saint-Philibert de Tournus (A. Picard, 1905), by Henri Curé and Jean Virey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Select memoirs of Port Royal. To which are appended, Tour to Alet, Visit to Port Royal, Gift of an abbess, biographical notices, &c. &c., taken from original documents (Hamilton, Adams, & co., 1835), by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance of the French abbeys ... (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), by Elizabeth W. Champney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance of the French abbeys (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Elizabeth W. Champney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tableau des abbayes et des monasères d'hommes en France, a l'époque de l'Edit de 1768. Liste des abbayes royales de filles; distribution, suivant l'ordre alphabetique, des diocèses anciens. (A. Planque, 1875), by Achille Peigné-Delacourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nos abbayes (Librairie Garneir Freres, 1920), by A. Broquelet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bourges, et les abbayes et châteaux du Berry (H. Laurens, 1912), by Georges Hardy and Alfred Antoine Gandilhon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'abbaye de Fontenay et l'architecture cistercienne (A. Rey, 1912), by Lucien Bégule (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Etudes sur l'état intérieur des abbayes cisterciennes et principalement de Clairvaux, au XIIe et au XIIIe siècle (A. Durand, 1858), by H. d' Arbois de Jubainville and Léon Pigeotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'abbaye de Fontenay et l'architecture cistercienne (H. Laurens, 1928), by Lucien Bégule (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de l'abbaye de N.-D. de Coulombs : rédigée d'après les titres originaux (Garnier, 1864), by Luc. Merlet and Société archéologique d'Eure-et-Loir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbayes et prieurés de l'ancienne France : recueil historique des archevêchés, évêchés, abbayes et prieurés de France. (Brepols, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le trésor de Clairvaux du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle (Imprimerie de J. Brunard, 1875), by Charles Lalore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saint-Philibert de Tournus (A. Picard, 1905), by Henri Curé and Jean Virey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die karolingische Klosterpolitik und der Niedergang des Westfränkischen Königtums : Laienäbte und Klosterinhaber. (F. Enke, 1917), by Karl Voigt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Urkundliche Geschichte der vormaligen Cisterzienser-Abtei Maulbronn (C.A. Sonnewald, 1854), by Karl Klunzinger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain (with photographs; London: A. W. Bennett, 1862), by William Howitt and Mary Howitt, illust. by Francis Bedford, William Russell Sedgfield, G. W. Wilson, and Roger Fenton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain and Ireland (second series, with photographs; London: A. W. Bennett, 1864), by William Howitt, illust. by Stephen Thompson, William Russell Sedgfield, Thomas Ogle, and William Despard Hemphill
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• Monastic and baronial remains, with other interesting fragments of antiquity, in England, Wales, and Scotland ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816), by George Isham Parkyns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbeys (The Great western railway, 1926), by M. R. James, A. Hamilton Thompson, and Great western railway company (Gt. Brit.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ruined abbeys of Britain (William Mackenzie, 1882), by Frederick Ross, William Mackenzie, A. F. Lydon, and Benjamin Fawcett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ruined abbeys of Great Britain (J. Pott & company, 1910), by Ralph Adams Cram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain. (A.W. Bennett, 1862), by William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ruined abbeys of Great Britain (Marshall Jones, 1927), by Ralph Adams Cram (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pilgrim shrines of England (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1928), by Ben C. Boulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ruined abbeys of Great Britain (James Pott, 1905), by Ralph Adams Cram (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of St. Mary's Abbey of Buckfast : in the county of Devon : A.D. 760-1906 (Buckfast Abbey, 1906), by Adam Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cloister life in the days of Cœvr de Lion (Isbister & company, limited, 1893), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones, A. Quinton, and Herbert Railton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cathedrals, abbeys and shrines of history and romance ([London, 1925), by London Midland and Scottish Railway Company and William Henry Walton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The castles and abbeys of England : from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors (Virtue and Company, 1844), by William Beattie, W. H. Bartlett, John Wykeham Archer, and Thomas Allom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abbeys of Great Britain (T. W. Laurie, 1908), by H. Claiborne Dixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ruined abbeys and castles in Great Britain and Ireland ... : 2d ser. . (A. W. Bennett, 1864), by William Howitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monasticon anglicanum; a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England. Together with a particular account of their respective foundations, grants, and donations, and a full statement of their possessions, as well temporal as spiritual. (Bohn, 1846), by William Dugdale, Richard C. Taylor, Bulkeley Bandinel, Henry Ellis, John Caley, John Stevens, and Roger Dodsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abbeys of Great Britain. (C. Scribner's sons, 1908), by H. Claiborne Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Abbeys of Great Britain, by H. Claiborne Dixon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fethard, its abbey, etc. (J. Duffy, 1903), by J. A. Knowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mémoires et documents (Lausanne, 1838), by Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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