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Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 Alison Binns

Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 By Alison Binns

Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 by Alison Binns

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The first systematic investigation of monastic dedications in England and Wales.

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Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 by Alison Binns

The first systematic investigation of monastic dedications in England and Wales. The first systematic investigation of monastic dedications in England and Wales. Each entry provides information on the monastery's foundation, together with details of its dedication and any changes in the patron saints of the house. The information is drawn from a variety of sources, including monastic charters and obituary rolls, monastic seals, national and local chronicles, and benedictionals and pontificals. It encompasses houses, dependent monasteries, cells and alien priorities of major orders.

Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 Reviews

`La maison d'edition Boydell & Brewer rend un signale service aux historiens de l'Eglise avec le large eventail de ses publications ... Nous apprenons donc avec plaisir que cette firme vient de publier les deux premiers volumes d'une nouvelle collection: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, sous la direction de Christopher Harper-Bill.' REVUE D'HISTOIRE ECCLSIASTIQUE, 1990 Binns is to be congratulated on this scholarly and informative catalogue, which will be extremely useful to all working medievalists. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The first systematic investigation' of its subject deserves even higher praise as the most important [recent] contribution to the study of medieval church dedications in England. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *

Table of Contents

Part 1: scope of the work; the nature of the evidence; the ceremony of dedication; chronological patterns 1066-1216; dedications of individual monastic orders; the choice of a patron saint; compound dedications - origins; how dedications were used - flexibility and change. Part 2 Catalogue of monastic houses: the Benedictines; the Benedictine alien priories; the Cluniacs; the Augustinian canons; Cistercian houses with a patron saint additional to the Blessed Virgin; the Premonstratensian canons; houses of Gilbertine canons; priories of Gilbertine canons and nuns; the Carthusians.

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GOR011878768
9780851155210
0851155219
Dedications of Monastic Houses in England and Wales, 1066-1216 by Alison Binns
Alison Binns
Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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Hardback
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
1989-07-06
238
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