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The Ecclesiastical Economy of Medieval Europe

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Richard Roehl
Richard Roehl
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 227 - 231
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1 Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose (New York, 1980), p. 463.Google Scholar

2 Knowles, Dom David, The Religious Orders in England, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1948–1959).Google Scholar

3 The reference is to his classic study, The Monastic Order in England (2nd ed., Cambridge, 1963). Of course, relatively speaking, histories of the individual orders abound.Google Scholar

4 Arguably the most significant exception to the rule of monasticism as integrative force occurs with respect to the regional diversity of cuisine; see Root's, Waverly classic The Food of France (New York, 1958), pp. 4–5, passim.Google Scholar

5 See, for example, Estow, Clara, “The Economic Development of the Order of Calatrava, 1158–1366,” Speculum, 57 (1982), pp. 267–91;CrossRefGoogle Scholar and also the interesting piece by Philippe, Robert, “L'Église et l'énergie pendant le Xle siècle dans les pays d'entre Seine et Loire,” Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 27 (1964), pp. 107–17. I am indebted to David S. Landes for the latter reference.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 See their earlier The Barns of the Abbey of Beaulieu at its Granges of Great Coxwell and Beaulieu St. Leonards. A Study in Medieval Survivals: Two Cistercian Abbey-Barns in England dating from the First Half of the 13th Century (Berkeley, 1965).Google Scholar

7 The identification of the plan as that of St. Gall owes to the circumstances of its accidental preservation and rediscovery, not from any association between the plan and that monastery's construction.Google Scholar

8 Migne, J. P., ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus, 97 (Paris, 1962).Google ScholarGuérard, B.E.C., ed., Polyptique de l'abbé Irminon (Paris, 1844).Google Scholar

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10 For another illustration of this relationship, see Mate, Mavis, “The Impact of War on the Economy of Canterbury Cathedral Priory,” Speculum, 57 (1982), pp. 761–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

11 See Gottfried's “Introduction” for these and additional references.Google Scholar

12 A similar process is exemplified in the case of St. Gall: see Price, The Plan of St. Gall, p. 84.Google Scholar

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14 Among the innumerable instances that could be cited, see as illustrative case studies, Constance Berman, Hoffmann, “Land Acquisition and the Use of the Mortgage Contract by the Cistercians of Berdoues,” Speculum, 57 (1982), pp. 250–66;CrossRefGoogle ScholarMannion, Anne M., Novalia. A Study in Cistercian Economic Policy and Practice from 1098–1215 (Ann Arbor, 1982);Google ScholarWilkes, Carl, “Die Zisterzienserabtei Himmerod im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert,” Beiträge zur Geschichte des alten Monchiums und des Benediktinerordens, 12 (Münster, 1924);Google Scholar and Wollenberg, Klaus, Die Entwicklund des Eigenwirtschafr des Zisterzienserklosters Furstenfeld zwischen 1262 und 1632, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Auftretens moderner Aspekte (Frankfurt am Main, 1984).Google Scholar

15 I have elsewhere suggested that fifty years or so was fairly typical of the time interval required for this “falling away” process to attain a significant level, if economic practices are a reliable indication (“Plan and Reality in a Medieval Monastic Economy: The Cistercians,” in Adelson, Howard L., ed., Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 9[1972], pp. 81–113). My more recent examination of documentary evidence from the abbey of Maulbronn offers additional confirmation of this hypothesis: Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, A502 PU 146 and A502 1.Google Scholar

16 Dubourg, Dom A., “La vie monastique dans l'abbaye de St. Germain des Prés,” Revue des Questions Historique, 78 (1905), p. 406.Google Scholar

17 See, for example, Thiele, P. Augustinus, “Echternach und Himmerod. Beispiele benediktinischer und zisterziensischer Wirtschaftsfuhrung im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert,” Forschungen zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Stuttgart, 1964);Google Scholar and Knowles, M. D., “Cistercians and Cluniacs,” The Historian and Character (Cambridge, 1963), pp. 50–75.Google Scholar

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