1st Edition
The Abbot and the Rule Religious Life at St Albans, 1290–1349
By Michelle Still
Copyright 2002
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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St Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Alban and his monastery; The abbot and the monastic community; The abbot and secular life; The abbot and the cells of St Albans; Education at St Albans in the 14th century; The provision of charity; Conclusions; Appendix A: Appropriated churches; Appendix B: Priors; Appendix C: Education at St Albans in the first half of the 14th century; Appendix D: The provision of charity; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michelle Still
'... a very clearly organized study... fortified with four appendices, an excellent bibliography and an adequate index.' American Benedictine Review '... provides a valuable contribution to the history of monastic life in medieval England.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 'This book is a careful, comprehensive, and well written sudy of the subject with which it deals, drawing on a wide variety of sources in manuscript and print as well as in books and articles, most notably the three-volume Gesta Abbatum in the Rolls series'. Albion
