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English Monastic Life
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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
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be transcribing errors, factual errors in the text, or historical
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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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