The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds

The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds PDF

Author: Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780851150871

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The abbey's extensive archives, now scattered in English and USlibraries, are for the first time properly listed. Dr Thomson discusseshow the collection was formed, maintained and used.

Inventing Sempringham

Inventing Sempringham PDF

Author: Katharine Sykes

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 3643901224

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This book explores the origins of the role of the Master or head of the order of Sempringham, the only monastic order to be founded in medieval England, from the foundation of the order to the final drafting of its legislation in the 1230s. The book demonstrates that many previous assumptions about the early development of this important role are flawed, most notably the standard portrait of Gilbert of Sempringham, founder of the order, as a stereotypical charismatic leader, big on ideas but short on the capacity to provide his followers with effective leadership. (Series: Vita regularis - Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen - Vol. 46)