Thomas of Marlborough History of the Abbey of Evesham

by Sayers, Jane; Watkiss, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780198204800
• ISBN10: 0198204809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-30
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

The Abbey of Evesham in Worcestershire was founded in the eighth century. This history, written by an Evesham monk in the thirteenth century, tells the story from the beginning. It describes in detail a great lawsuit in Rome where the writer was present. The story then returns to England and to the monks' attempts to depose their scandalous abbot. This Oxford Medieval Text edition provides a Latin text with a facing page English translation, a detailed historical introduction, and notes.

Table of Contents

ABBREVIATIONS	xi
SIGLA	xiv
INTRODUCTION	xv
I. THOMAS'S LIFE AND WORK	xv
II. THE ABBEY OF EVESHAM	xxviii
A. Status and Exemption	xxviii
B. Cult and Buildings	xlviii
C. Customs and Revenues: the Definition of Rights	lii
III. THOMAS'S HISTORY	lxiv
A. The Manuscript: Outline; Quiring	lxiv
B. The Making of the Manuscript (by Teresa Webber)	lxvi
C. The Evesham Cartularies and other Surviving Records	lxxii
D. Previous Edition	lxxix
E. This Edition	lxxx
IV. CHRONOLOGY	lxxxiii
A. Fiction and Fact: Significant Dates in Evesham's History before 1190	lxxxiii
B. Chronological Summary of Thomas's Life and the Major Events of the Years 1202-36	lxxxvi
TEXT AND TRANSLATION	1	(572)
THE FIRST BOOK on the Life and Miracles of St Ecgwine by Dominic, prior of Evesham, abbreviated by Prior Thomas	2	(74)
Twelve readings	6	(26)
The Charter of St Ecgwine	32	(20)
End of First book	52	(1)
The composition of the reading on the translation of St Ecgwine	52	(4)
Twelve readings for the feast of the translation	56	(20)
THE SECOND BOOK of the Miracles by Dominic	76	(50)
THE THIRD BOOK by Thomas of Marlborough	126	(387)
Part I	126	(76)
Part II	202	(62)
Part III	264	(80)
Part IV	344	(84)
Part V	428	(85)
APPENDICES	513	(60)
I. A bond of the proctors of Evesham	514	(2)
II. The customs of the abbey and the disposition of the revenues	516	(48)
A. As confirmed by the papal legate in 1206	516	(18)
B. As in the charter drawn up under Abbot Randulf	534	(28)
C. Comparative table of the texts	562	(2)
III. Letter of Abbot Reginald to Gilbert, abbot of Gloucester	564	(4)
IV. Charter of Abbot Thomas and the convent concerning visitation, 1233	568	(2)
V. The number of monks	570	(3)
INDEX OF QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS	573	(4)
GENERAL INDEX	577