THE REGULAR CANONS IN THE MEDIEVAL BRITISH ISLES

Edited by

Janet Burton and Karen Stober

BREPOLSa CONTENTS

Abbreviations ix

List of Illustrations xiii

Introduction 1 JANET BURTON AND KAREN STOBER

Part I: Origins, Organization, and Regional Developments

Anglo-Saxon Saints and a Norman Archbishop: 19 'Imaginative Memory' and Institutional Identity at St Gregory's , Canterbury SHEILA SWEETINBURGH

The Regular Canons and Diocesan Reform in Northern England 41 JANET BURTON

The Canons in Northumbria: Region, Tradition, and 59 Textuality in a Colonizing Order ANNE MATHERS -LAWRENCE

Augustinian Canons and the Survival of Cult Centres 79 in Medieval England ANDREW ABRAM The Regular Canons in Wales KAREN STOBER

A Survey of Relations between Scottish Augustinian Canons before 1215 ANDREW T. SMITH AND GARRETT B. RATCLIFF

The Founders and Patrons of the Premonstratensian Houses in Ireland MIRIAM CLYNE

The Chapter Office in the Gilbertine Order and the Rule of St Augustine JANET T. SORRENTINO

Part II: Community Life

Corrodies at Houses of Regular Canons in England c. 1485-1539 ALLISON D. FIZZARD

The Augustinian Canons and Education NICHOLAS ORME

The Regular Canons and the Use of Food, c. 1200-1350 DAVE POSTLES

Thornton : Canons and their Careers within the Cloister JUDITH A. FROST

Augustinian Life and Leadership in Late Medieval England: Abbot Henry Honor of Missenden (1462-c. 1506) and his Register MARTIN HEALE

Part III: Social Contexts

'And then he added Canons': Gilbert, the Order of Sempringhai and the Developing Framework of Gilbertine Life GLYN COPPACK The Augustinian Canons and their Parish Churches: 313 A Key to their Identity NICK NICHOLS

The Significance of Devotion to the Augustinian Canons 339 by Members of the Nobility and Gentry in the Fourteenth Century GRAHAM ST JOHN

Kinship, Locality, and Benefaction: The Uppington Heiresses 363 and the Priory of Wombridge in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire EMMA CAVELL

The Last Generation of Augustinian Canons 387 in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire CLAIRE CROSS

Part IV: Cultural Contexts

The Augustinians, History, and Literature in Late 403 Medieval England JAMES G. CLARK

The Idol of Origins: Retrospection in Augustinian Art 417 during the Later Middle Ages JULIAN M. LUXFORD

The Standing Fabric and the Rockeries: Reconstructing 443 Thurgarton Priory Church JENNIFERS. ALEXANDER

Augustinian Regular Canons in Twelfth- and 469 Thirteenth-Century Ireland: History, Architecture, and Identity TADHG O'KEEFFE

Index of Houses of Regular Canons and Canonesses in the British Isles 485

General Index 493