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Cathedrals and Charity: Almsgiving at English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages

Cathedrals and Charity: Almsgiving at English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages

The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History. Ed. by RICHARD W. PFAFF.

There was no liturgical uniformity in the Middle Ages; instead a hundred uses co-existed, drawn up by local churches, regular or secular, to suit their own needs. Faced with a plethora of ‘liturgies’ purists have argued tiresomely against the definite article, but it stands proudly on the title-page of Richard Pfaff's magisterial overview, proclaiming the continuum of effort that underlies the varieties of liturgical practice across two Christian millennia. This is the book that it has been Richard Pfaff's to write, and it has grown out of forty years of work on the primary manuscripts. It should find a hungry audience since liturgy is often seen as a difficult subject for the non-specialist to dig into, reliant hitherto on A. A. King's now outdated Liturgies of the Religious Orders (1955) supplemented by Andrew Hughes's erudite but opaque handbook Medieval Manuscripts For Mass and Office (1982). Pfaff's history is truly an evidence-based approach, its conclusions drawn at all points from the surviving manuscripts, buttressed by architectural evidence, and by the documentary witness of councils and synods, visitation records and the statutes of collegiate churches and secular cathedrals.

A Brotherhood of Canons Serving God: English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages.David Lepine

<i>A Brotherhood of Canons Serving God: English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages.</i>David Lepine

A Brotherhood of Canons Serving God: English Secular Cathedrals in the Later Middle Ages.

The secular cathedrals of later medieval England the scramble for preferment - acquiring a canonry canons' originals - geographical, social and educational canons' careers to the praise, honour and glory of Almighty - canons' residence at their cathedrals canons' houses, households and hospitality the interests and activities of residentiary canons 1 - religious interests, 2 - intellectual and cultural interests a brotherhood of canons serving God - life in the close.

Bishop and Chapter in Twelfth-Century England: A Study of the Mensa Episcopalis.

Introduction 1. The place of the mensa 2. The episcopal church in the kingdom 3. The cathedral priories: Bath and Wells, Canterbury, Carlisle, Coventry, Durham, Ely, Norwich, Rochester, Winchester, Worcester 4. The secular cathedrals: Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lincoln, London, Salisbury, York 5. The chapter as community.

Fortress-Churches of Languedoc: Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the High Middle Ages by Sheila Bonde

Fortress-Churches of Languedoc:Architecture, Religion, and Conflict in the High Middle Ages. By Sheila Bonde. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xv, 270. $85.00.) Sheila Bonde's gracefully written study of the development of the fortresschurch will certainly be of great interest to architectural historians. This excellent book will also appeal to a broader audience, that is, to medievalists interested in subjects as diverse as the history of southern France, the intertwining of religious and military realms, and the expansion of Capetian power in the twelfth century. The fortress-church (which Bonde defines as a church whose structure incorporates elements of fortification) seems to have first appeared in western Europe in Languedoc during the early twelfth century. Thus southern France was not the architectural backwater that art historians obsessed with the emergence of Gothic have tended to believe. Bonde's focus is on the three earliest important examples of this architectural form: the abbey church of Saint-Ponsde-Thomieres and the episcopal churches of Agde and Maguelone. She examines the physical fabric of each of these twelfth-century churches and the institutional history of the community for which it was built. She also explores archival sources to arrive at approximate dates for the construction of the fortified churches. In an appendix, Bonde provides the text of these Latin documents and her English translations (which are generally accurate translations of the often awkward Latin). Bonde's extensive archival research explains why her study will be of great relevance to scholars other than architectural historians. Bonde is keenly interested in the context, both local and larger, for these churches; hence, she also writes very much as a historian. This is not to say that she ignores the stylistic history of the fortress-church. Looking at Islamic and imperial Roman secular architecture, English cathedrals, and local southern French predecessors and parallels, Bonde traces the development of the distinctive architectural features of fortress churches. She argues that their most important characteristic, the machicolated arcade (a series of arches with an opening at their apexes allowing objects to be dropped on attackers), was introduced to western European architecture from the Muslim world through the fortress-churches of Languedoc, and not through castles as has been assumed previously. Bonde is equally interested in the functional and social history of these buildings. She discusses, for example, the manning and operation of the churches. Using comparative architectural evidence, she also demonstrates that these churches functioned not only as actual fortresses but also as symbolic proclamations of power and order, an order based on a desire for peace. …

A Canon's Residence in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Thomas Gooch

A well-to-do prebendary of the eighteenth century might spend a part of his time in his cathedral close, a part in his other benefices, a part in some favourite country home, a part in London seeking favour in the court which could lead to a bishopric. He might even, like Dr Vesey Stanhope in Barchester Towers, spend years abroad, never doing a day's duty in Barchester Close – ‘and yet there was no reason against his doing duty except a want of inclination on his own part’. Dr Stanhope was doubtless intended to represent standards of the eighteenth century surviving into the nineteenth; and there is no doubt that non-residence was widespread, pluralism common in the eighteenth century. It has often and reasonably been said that these were no novelty: their roots go back to the refoundation of secular cathedrals after the Norman Conquest; non-residence and pluralism rose and fell in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, rose again to remarkable heights in the fifteenth; Thomas Wolsey set a standard of pluralism no later prelate could scale, yet the reformers – for all their squeamish phrases – made little permanent impression on these practices, which survived into the age of Trollope. But it is exceedingly difficult to find any precise evidence as to how the pluralists of any age filled their time. The interest of Thomas Gooch (1675–1754) nes precisely in this: until he became bishop of Norwich he was a canon of Chichester and of Canterbury, whose cathedral records throw some light on his residence, and Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where his periods of residence are exactly known. These three offices divided his attention. It is true that he was also archdeacon of Essex, and held other preferment besides, but such evidence as we have suggests that this involved him in only occasional duties: we have found evidence of six occasions when he held archdeacon's visitations in person.

Henry VIII, the Reformation, and the Cathedrals

Although the general lines of the Reformation under Henry VIII are well known, little attention has been paid to the way in which the changes affected the cathedrals. There has, of course, been a good deal of writing about individual cathedrals, mainly by local antiquarians (often nineteenth-century canons of the cathedrals themselves), and general accounts of the Reformation allude occasionally to the cathedral churches. But no one has yet produced a study of sixteenth-century cathedrals, taking all of these churches into account and showing exactly how they were altered as a result of the Reformation. It is particularly interesting to examine the changes which occurred during the first phase of the Reformation, the period between Henry VIII's breach with the papacy in 1533 and the king's death in 1547. This paper attempts to describe the impact of the Henrician Reformation on the English cathedrals and the men who served in them.' In order to appreciate the alterations which were mandated under Henry one must have some understanding of the state of the cathedrals before the impact of the Reformation came to be felt. It is especially important to know what the constitutional arrangements were. In the early Tudor period there were nineteen cathedrals in England. They were almost evenly divided between monastic cathedrals, staffed by monks, and secular cathedrals, operated by clergy who were not in monastic orders. There were greater and lesser cathedrals in each category. The ten monastic cathedrals were Canterbury, Winchester, Durham, Worcester, Rochester, Ely, Norwich, Coventry, Bath, and Carlisle; all of these were Benedictine houses except Carlisle, which was a house of Augustinian canons, following a rule similar to but somewhat looser than that of St. Benedict. Th-e nine secular cathedrals were York,

Book Review: The Shape of Likelihood: Relevance and the University: Our Secular Cathedrals: Change and Continuity in the University

Book Review: The Shape of Likelihood: Relevance and the University: Our Secular Cathedrals: Change and Continuity in the University

Our Secular Cathedrals: Change and Continuity in the University

Our Secular Cathedrals: Change and Continuity in the University

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: a Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century, 2nd revised ed. By Kathleen Edwards. Pp. xx + 412 + 7 illustrations. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes &amp; Noble, 1967. 63s.

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: a Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century, 2nd revised ed. By Kathleen Edwards. Pp. xx + 412 + 7 illustrations. Manchester: Manchester University Press; New York: Barnes &amp; Noble, 1967. 63s.

After the Intermission

It hardly seems possible that messages out of Zebulun, pieces of counterpoint to the book review section, have been appearing in these pages for nearly six years. There has been, it is true, due to various circumstances, a recent hiatus of almost a year. But during that time it seems that little has changed. If we may believe the pundits, God is dead; the main concern of nations is not conciliation but the Gross National Product; the new culture is painfully coming to birth; episodes of the past are greeted with a ghost of a smile; the gulf between the generations widens, and the dwindling number of our citizens over 40 are increasingly suspect; the space race continues; new cars have appeared upon the shrines of the Western nations' secular cathedrals, the automobile showrooms. Meanwhile Medicine, in the van of technological achievement, is busy putting its house in order and

Kathleen Edwards, Μ. Α., Ph. D., The English secular cathedrals in the middle ages. A constitutional study with special reference to the fourteenth century = Publications of the university of Manchester Nr. 301, historical series Nr. 82. Manchester

Kathleen Edwards, Μ. Α., Ph. D., The English secular cathedrals in the middle ages. A constitutional study with special reference to the fourteenth century = Publications of the university of Manchester Nr. 301, historical series Nr. 82. Manchester

The Principles of Economic Planning. By W. Arthur Lewis. (Dennis Dobson and George Allen &amp; Unwin; 7s. 6d.)

Book reviewed in this article:The Principles of Economic Planning. By W. Arthur Lewis.St Thomas and rthe World State. By Robert M. Hutchins.This Perverse Generation. By Peter Michaels.The Evidence for Voluntary Action. Edited by Lord Beveridge and A. F. Wells.The Social Problems of an Industrial Cilisation. By B. Elton Mayo.Paths in Utopia. By Martin Buber. Translated by R. F. C. HullStalin. By I. Deutscher.Military Attaché in Moscow. By Richard Hilton.The Greek Sedition. By F. A. Voigt.Rélisme Economique et Progrès SocialQuaker Social History (1669–1738). By Arnold Lloyd.Redemption of the Common Life. By Jim Wilson.The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages. By Kathleen Edwards.

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages; A Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century. Kathleen Edwards

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The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages. By Kathleen Edwards. (Manchester University Press; 25s.)

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The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with special Reference to the Fourteenth Century

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with special Reference to the Fourteenth Century

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century. By &lt;italic&gt;Kathleen Edwards&lt;/italic&gt;, Lecturer in Medieval History in the University of Aberdeen. [Publications of the University of Manchester, No. CCCI, Historical Series No. LXXXII.] (Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1949. Pp. xv, 415. 25&lt;italic&gt;s&lt;/italic&gt;.)

The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century. By Kathleen Edwards, Lecturer in Medieval History in the University of Aberdeen. [Publications of the University of Manchester, No. CCCI, Historical Series No. LXXXII.] (Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1949. Pp. xv, 415. 25s.) Get access The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages: A Constitutional Study with Special Reference to the Fourteenth Century. By Edwards Kathleen, Lecturer in Medieval History in the University of Aberdeen. [Publications of the University of Manchester, No. CCCI, Historical Series No. LXXXII.] (Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1949. Pp. xv, 415. 25s.) Hilda Johnstone Hilda Johnstone Chichester, Sussex, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 55, Issue 1, October 1949, Pages 113–114, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/55.1.113 Published: 01 October 1949

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