The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, I. 940-1216

This is the first of two volumes, now covering the heads of religious houses in England and Wales from the tenth-century reform to the death of Edward III, 940–1377. This first volume, by the great master of monastic history, Dom David Knowles, aided by Christopher Brooke and Vera London, was published first in 1972 and was quickly recognised as a major work of reference, noted for its mastery of accurate detail. It has now been brought up to date with substantial addenda and corrigenda by Christopher Brooke. The 1972 volume covers the period 940–1216, and comprises fully documented, critical lists of monastic superiors, with succinct biographical details. It is an essential foundation for all prosopographical study of the religious history of the period; and the precise chronology that it underpins is invaluable for dating innumerable undated documents. As such, the book is a fundamental tool of medieval research. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 PREFACE (2001)......Page 9 PREFACE (1972)......Page 10 MANUSCRIPTS REFERRED TO......Page 13 PRINTED BOOKS AND ARTICLES CITED, WITH ABBREVIATED REFERENCES......Page 21 OTHER ABBREVIATIONS......Page 49 I. The purpose and scope of this book......Page 51 II . The materials......Page 55 III. Special problems of the period 940–1066......Page 62 IV. The arrangement of the lists......Page 66 NOTE......Page 70 THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES: INDEPENDENT HOUSES......Page 73 THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES: DEPENDENCIES......Page 135 THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES: ALIEN PRIORIES......Page 149 THE CLUNIAC HOUSES......Page 164 THE CISTERCIAN HOUSES......Page 176 THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS......Page 199 THE AUGUSTINIAN CANONS......Page 200 THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS......Page 242 THE GILBERTINE CANONS AND NUNS......Page 250 THE NUNS......Page 257 APPENDIX I UNIDENTIFIED PRE-CONQUEST ABBOTS AND ABBESSES......Page 275 APPENDIX II UNIDENTIFIED ABBOTS AND PRIORS, AFTER 1066......Page 278 APPENDIX III LIST OF PRE-CONQUEST CHARTERS USED......Page 279 ADDENDUM......Page 288 CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA TO VOLUME I, 940–1216......Page 289 Benedictine houses: independent......Page 290 The Benedictine houses: dependencies......Page 309 The Benedictine houses: alien priories......Page 312 The Cluniac houses......Page 316 The Cistercian houses......Page 320 The Augustinian canons......Page 325 The Premonstratensian canons......Page 338 The Gilbertine canons and nuns......Page 339 The nuns......Page 340 Appendix I: Unidentified pre-Conquest abbots and abbesses......Page 348 Appendix III: List of pre-Conquest charters used......Page 349 ON THE DATE OF REG., II, NO. 1391......Page 351 ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 352 INDEX OF HEADS......Page 360 INDEX OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES......Page 400 This is the first of a series of volumes which have become recognised as one of the great monuments of English historical scholarship. The late Dom David Knowles began work on the subject in 1929; The Monastic Order in England appeared in 1948, 1955 and 1959. This volume begins the account of a whole way of Christian life and a unique element of English civilisation, from Anglo-Saxon times to the mid-sixteenth century. It opens with a survey of monastic life and activities of the old orders to 1340; goes on to record the impact of the Friars, and concludes with a general survey of the monasteries and their world. This is the first of two volumes, which together form a catalogue of abbots and priors, abbesses and prioresses, of English and Welsh monastic houses between 940 and 1377. This present volume covers the period to 1216, and provides invaluable material for specialists in the period to study the biographies and personalities of the monastic orders, and to date undated documents. First published in 1972, it won international acclaim as a fundamental tool of medieval research. It is now reissued with substantial additions and corrections by Professor C.N.L. Brooke. Machine generated contents note: HEADS OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES: ENGLAND AND WALES 940-I2I6 THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES INDEPENDENT HOUSES DEPENDENCIES ALIEN PRIORIES THE CLUNIAC HOUSES THE CISTERCIAN HOUSES THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS THE AUGUSTINIAN CANONS THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS THE GILBERTINE CANONS AND NUNS THE NUNS APPENDICES I Unidentifiedpre-Conquest abbots and abbesses II Unidentified abbots and priors, after io66 III List of pre-Conquest charters used Addendum (1972) Corrigenda and Addenda Additional Bibliography Index of Heads Index of Religious Houses. This book covers a period (1336-1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the Conciliar Movement. David Knowles devotes part of his book to narrative, and part to analysis. This is the first of two volumes, which together form a catalogue of abbots and priors, abbesses and prioresses, of English and Welsh monastic houses between 940 and 1377. First published in 1972, it is now reissued with substantial additions and corrections by Professor C. N. L. Brooke. Dom David Knowles surveys the monastic life and activities in the early Tudor period. He examines different abbots, bishops and others that shed new light on the fortunes of the Cistercian abbeys and on the influence upon the monks of the new humanist education. The epoch of history which opens with the pontificate of Innocent III presents to the student of ecclesiastical institutions and of religious sentiment an appearance very different from that which had gone before. [v. 1] The old orders, 1216-1340. The friars, 1216-1340. The monasteries and their world. v. 2. The end of the Middle Ages. v.3. The Tudor age.

a Reissue, With Substantial Corrections, Of A Classic Research Tool In Medieval Religious History.

The advent of the first Tudor sovereign marked no epoch in the history of the religious orders in England.