The monastic constitutions of Lanfranc
By: edited and translated by David Knowles.
Contributors: Knowles, David, b. 1896.; Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence.
Edition: Rev. ed. / by Christopher N.L. Brooke.
Series: Oxford medieval texts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Cluniacs -- England -- Rules
Description: "The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 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, Christopher N. L. Brooke incorporates 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 - and for 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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Latin and English on opposite pages.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.