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On this page you will find full text chapter links to Abbot Gasquet's book English Monastic Life. Gasquet published the book through the Antiquaries Book Series in 1904.  It is now out of print and not generally available. (Kessinger Publishing recently issued a reprint of this work, kudos to Kessinger for this.)  I have transcribed Gasquet's original text here, as it is now in the public domain.  There may be transcribing errors, factual errors in the text, or historical points on which historians or theologians do not agree. Read it, use it, love it, hate it, on your own terms and at your own risk.   A note on the text.

Public Domain text transcribed and prepared "as is" for HTML and PDF by Richenda Fairhurst, historyfish.net.  August 2007.  No commercial permissions of this transcription are granted.  Text may contain errors.   
           



The Antiquary Books
General Editor, Charles Cox., L.L.D., F.S.A.


English
Monastic Life




by
Abbot Gasquet
O.S.B., D.D., Ph. D., D. Litt., F.R. Hist. S.


with numerous illustrations, maps and plans







Methuen & Co.
36 Essex Street  W.C.
London
1904





Contents

Preface....................................................................xi

List of Manuscripts and Printed Books.....................xv


CHAPTER 1
The Monastic Life.....................................................1
(An introduction to Monasticism)

CHAPTER II
The Material Parts of a Monastery............................13
(for groundplans only)


CHAPTER III
The Monastery and its Rulers...................................37


CHAPTER IV
The Obedientiaries ...................................................58
(The 'jobs' of monks within a monastery.)

CHAPTER V
The Obedientiaries (continued).................................85


CHAPTER VI
The Daily Life in a Monastery....................................111
(What a medieval monk typically did each day.)

CHAPTER VII
The Daily Life in a Monastery (continued)...................131


CHAPTER VIII
The Nuns of Medieval England ................................154
(Emphasis on household accounts and records.)

CHAPTER IX
External Relations of the Monastic Orders.................180
(Relationships between the monks and the bishop, secular rulers,
and farmer tenants.)

CHAPTER X
The Paid Servants of the Monastery...........................201
(The role of the paid servants and assistants.)

CHAPTER XI
The Various Religions Orders....................................213
(Overview of each monastic order & illustrations.)

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List of English Religious Houses.................................251

Index (pdf) ......................................................319
(3,721 KB.  Available as PDF only. )



                                          
 


               
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