Corrodies in the English Monasteries
Corrodies in the English Monasteries

Author: Howard Morris Stuckert

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1532678010

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This study explores corrodies throughout history both as a word and its general use as well as how it evolved and was used in monastic society. Throughout the text are studies of the corrody as it related to the economy and property as well as how it was abused and how it effected the monastic system as a whole.

The Abbot and the Rule
The Abbot and the Rule

Author: Michelle Still

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1351895303

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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 herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.

Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England
Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England

Author: Michael Haren

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0191543276

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Penetrating behind the seal of medieval confession is among the most formidable historiographical challenges. One route is through confessors' manuals. This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century confessor's English example. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society. Michael Haren analyses a remarkable treatise both as a vehicle of social doctrine and as a mirror of the milieu to which it is directed. While presenting it against its general intellectual background, continental and English, he also argues for its setting within a vigorous and largely neglected episcopal regime, that of Bishop Grandisson of Exeter. His wide-ranging exposition will interest students of moralizing literature - including Chaucer and Piers Plowman - as well as historians.