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5 days ago · With The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England, Martin Heale has made a significant contribution to our understanding of this transition, of the position of the English monastic superior in the century which preceded it, and of the ways in which this position contributed to, and influenced the course of, the Dissolution of ...
3 days ago · St. Bartholomew's was a monastery of the order of the canons regular of St. Augustine, or Austin Canons, sometimes called the Black Canons, from the black cope and hood that formed the habit. They are not to be confused either with the Austin Friars or with the Black Friars who were Dominicans, and wore a black cloak and hood.
2 days ago · The Cistercians in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2011, ISBN: 9781843836674; 256pp.; Price: £25.00. For many, the Cistercian order remains the medieval monastic success story par excellence. With this new history of the White Monks and Nuns, two of the UK’s leading monastic scholars present an engaging and authoritative ...
3 days ago · Rev. Ambrose Little, O.P., of The Thomistic Institute explains that all monastic orders had this haircut. It was a sign that the individual was dedicated to divine service. He adds that the men in formation for the priesthood were given the tonsure early in their formation, just like they are given the office of acolyte and lector today.
5 days ago · The chamber is 24 ft. 3 in. long and had a barrel vault supported by wall arcades 'made up of older material, some of the capitals of the shafts being of 12th-century, and others of 13th-century date.' The entrance was by a round-headed doorway on the south leading into a vaulted passage carried along that side of the building to the west end ...
3 days ago · Bishops in the Political Community of England, 1213-1272. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9780198754022; 256pp.; Price: £60.00. The bishops in 13th-century England have often received individual historiographical attention as key figures; the likes of Stephen Langton and Peter des Roches as major political actors, or Robert ...
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4 days ago · HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS. 1. ST. ALBANS ABBEY. Before The Conquest. The legend of the foundation of St. Albans Abbey has been graphically written by Matthew Paris, a 13th-century monk of the abbey. According to his account Offa II, King of the Mercians, desired to found a monastery in atonement for the murder by Quendreda, his queen, of ...
