The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc

by Knowles, Dom David; Brooke, Christopher N. L.

• ISBN13: 9780199247981
• ISBN10: 0199247986
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-14
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Summary

The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury between 1070 and 1089, has long been recognized as one of the most important historical sources for medieval monastic life. In this major new revision of Dom David Knowles's classic editions of 1951 and 1967, C. N. L. Brookeincorporates the historical scholarship of the last generation to offer further insight into and illumination of Lanfranc and the monastic world of the eleventh century.The Monastic Constitutions comprise a liturgical directory, a description of the functions of the leading officials of a monastery, and other fundamental regulations. Composed around 1077, they were intended for Lanfranc's own cathedral at Canterbury, for his nephew Paul's abbey of St Albans - andfor any other houses which might observe them. The structure of life in a monastery of the traditional monasticism of the eleventh century has never been so clearly laid out as in this book, but the work also has its puzzles, which Christopher Brooke in this new edition seeks to elucidate.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	xv
Lanfranc's Constitutions	xv
David Knowles
The background	xv
The monastic life in the eleventh century	xix
The liturgical horarium	xx
The monastic horarium as indicated by lanfranc	xxiii
Characteristics of this monasticism	xxv
Audience, Date and Sources	xxviii
Christopher Brooke
Audience and date	xxviii
The sources	xxxix
Additional note: `Lanfranc's sacramentary'	xlii
Manuscripts and Editions	xliii
The title of Lanfranc's work	xliii
David Knowles
Christopher Brooke
The manuscripts	xliii
Christopher Brooke
Library catalogues and lost manuscripts	xlviii
Christopher Brooke
Printed editions earlier than 1951	xlix
David Knowles
The Instruction of Novices	liii
Editorial Method	liv
Synopsis of the Monastic Constitutions	lv
Sigla of Manuscripts Cited	lviii
Text and Translation of Lanfranc's Monastic Constitutions	1	(196)
Text and Translation of `The Instruction of Novices'	197	(26)
Concordance	223	(2)
Index of Quotations and Allusions	225	(3)
General Index	228