Category: History - British
English Monastic Life
Map of Houses of the Black Monks } Map of Houses of the White Monks } Map of Houses of the Carthusians and Friars } " 318 Map of Houses of the Regular Canons } Map of Houses of the Nuns }
Chapters
12. CHAPTER XI
The various Orders existing in England in pre-Reformation days may be classified under four headings: (1) Monks, (2) Canons Regular, (3) Military Orders, and (4) Friars. As rega...
5. CHAPTER IVThe officials of a monastery were frequently known by the name of _obedientiaries_. Sometimes under this name were included even the prior and sub-prior, as they also were appoi...
9. CHAPTER VIIINo account of English monastic life would be complete without some special reference to the nuns and nunneries. It is, it may be first observed in passing, altogether wrong to a...
6. CHAPTER VThe official appointed to have the care of the infirm and sick should have the virtue of patience in a pre-eminent degree. “He must be gentle,” says one Custumal, “and good-temp...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe daily “_Magna Missa_”--the Conventual, or High Mass--began at ten o’clock. The first signal was given by the ringing of a small bell some short time before the hour; and for...
3. CHAPTER IIIn any account of the parts of a monastic establishment the church obviously finds the first place. As St. Benedict laid down the principle that “nothing is to be preferred to t...
10. CHAPTER IXNormally, the bishop of the diocese in which a religious house was situated, was its Visitor and ultimate authority, except in so far as an appeal lay from him to the pope. In p...
4. CHAPTER IIIThe monastic rule, at least after the days of St. Benedict, was eminently social. Both in theory and in practice the regular observance of the great abbeys and other religious h...
7. CHAPTER VIThe night Office in most monasteries began at midnight, although in some places the time varied according to the seasons of the year, from that hour till half-past two or three...
2. CHAPTER IThe regular or monastic life was instituted to enable men to attain with greater security to the higher ideals of the Christian life proposed to them in the Gospel. In the early...
11. CHAPTER XNo account of the officials of a mediæval monastery would be complete without some notice of the assistants, other than the monks, who took so large a part in the administration...
1. CHAPTER XIMap of Houses of the Black Monks } Map of Houses of the White Monks } Map of Houses of the Carthusians and Friars } " 318 Map of Houses of the Regular Canons } Map of Houses of...