Research Catalog

Title

Rievaulx Abbey and its social context, 1132-1300 : memory, locality, and networks / Emilia Jamroziak.

Author

Jamroziak, Emilia

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, 2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 252 p. : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Rievaulx abbey was one of the most prominent houses of white monks (Cistercians) in England, and became in the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries an important feature of the ecclesiastical and social landscape of Yorkshire. The present work is the first in-depth study devoted to Rievaulx's social history. The abbey's once extensive archives were largely destroyed after the Dissolution, but the surviving late-twelfth-century cartulary provides a fascinating insight into the process of creating institutional memory, preserving and shaping information about various neighbours of the abbey, and creating a 'map' of social networks that developed around Rievaulx. The complex picture of building and sustaining connections between the abbey and its lay patrons, benefactors and neighbours forms a core of this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Medieval church studies ; 8

Uniform Title

Medieval church studies 8.

Subject

• Rievaulx Abbey (North Yorkshire, England)
• Sozialgeschichte 1132-1300
• Cistercian monasteries > Yorkshire

Genre/Form

Hochschulschrift.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Rievaulx cartulary: the patron, locality, and collective memory. Rievaulx Abbey and its patron: foundation and its memory. Building relationships : family and locality -- Good neighbours: benefactors and supporters. Aristocratic families and Rievaulx Abbey. Knightly families and Rievaulx Abbey -- Bad neighbours: disputes and conflict resolution. Conflicts and their mechanisms. The 'Bad' patron -- Rievaulx Abbey and the monastic world. Close neighbours. Houses sharing the same founder. Other Cistercian houses. Augustinian houses. Contacts with the Order of Sempringham -- Rievaulx Abbey and the ecclesiastical world. The archbishops of York and Rievaulx Abbey. The bishops of Durham and Rievaulx Abbey. Archdeacons, chapters, deans, and canons and their connections with Rievaulx Abbey -- Friendship and commemoration.

ISBN

2503521770 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 58422076
• SCSB-12694742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library