The records of the office-holding monks of Westminster Abbey are of
major importance not only for life in the cloister, but also for
that of society outside. Approx. 4000 items. ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY: A masterpiece of scholarly research and writing... This
superb collection of financial records is now rendered easily
accessible to scholars by means of a practical guide. May [B.H.]'s
achievement prove tobe the long awaited model that future scholars
will follow to the benefit of us all. The obedientiaries -
office-holding monks - of Benedictine monasteries in the middle
ages led a life of more privilege and freedom than is usually
associated with the profound understanding of the monastic life in
the Rule of St Benedict. The records of the obedientiaries of
Westminster Abbey are a source of major importance, not only for
life in the cloister, but alsofor that of society outside. The
typical obedientiary rendered his final account at Michaelmas (29
September) each year, and nearly 2,000 such accounts survive, but
other documents were also produced throughout the year. The entire
number surviving, approximately four thousand items, is listed here
under the title of the appropriate obedientiary (including abbot
and prior); an in troduction to each list describes the principal
subject-matter of the records. BARBARA HARVEY is emeritus fellow of
Somerville College, Oxford; her other work includes Living and
Dying in England, 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience and The
Estates of Westminster Abbey in the Middle Ages.
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