Research Catalog

Title

The English benedictine cathedral priories : rule and practice, c. 1270-c. 1420 / Joan Greatrex.

Author

Greatrex, Joan.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Description

x, 416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The English Benedictine Cathedral Priories offers a detailed study of nine monastic communities. Joan Greatrex follows the lives of the young men, only some of whom are known by name, from the day of their arrival at the monastery to the moment of their death or departure. The individual chapters provide the details that fill in many of the gaps in the monastic biographies to be found in her earlier work. The result is the first comparative study of the implementation of the Benedictine Rule, and the daily routine, observances, and customs practised by the nine priories, as well as of the monks' progress through the successive stages of their monastic life. The author exploits to the full the archiepiscopal and episcopal registers, which record their official acts, in addition to the monastic accounts of the monk office holders who were responsible for the various departments within the monastery.

Subject

• Monasticism and religious orders > Rules
• Monasticism and religious orders > England > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500

Genre/Form

• History
• Rules

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The early years of monastic life -- The community of professed novices and junior monks -- The years of maturity and responsibility : the duties of obedientiaries and senior monks -- Feria, fast, and feast : the rhythm of the liturgical year -- The closing years : illness, age, infirmity, and death -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780199250738 (hbk.)
• 0199250731 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2010943361

OCLC

• 731129129
• SCSB-11039298

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library