Pittenweem Priory and the conventuality question
Pittenweem Priory began life as the caput manor of a daughter-house established on May Island by Cluniac monks from Reading (c. 1140). After its sale to St Andrews (c. 1280), the priory transferred ashore. While retaining its traditional name, the Priory of May (alias Pittenweem)' was subsumed...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University Press
[2017]
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The Innes review
Year: 2017, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-37 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Conventuality
B Isle of May B regality jurisdiction B Pittenweem B dependent priories B St Andrews priory |
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| Summary: | Pittenweem Priory began life as the caput manor of a daughter-house established on May Island by Cluniac monks from Reading (c. 1140). After its sale to St Andrews (c. 1280), the priory transferred ashore. While retaining its traditional name, the Priory of May (alias Pittenweem)' was subsumed within the Augustinian priory of St Andrews. Its prior was elected from among the canons of the new mother house, but it was many decades before a resident community of canons was set up in Pittenweem. The traditional view, based principally on the non-conventual' status of the priory reiterated in fifteenth-century documents, is that there was no resident community' before the priorship of Andrew Forman (1495-1515). Archaeological evidence in Pittenweem, however, indicates that James Kennedy had embarked on significant development of the priory fifty years earlier. This suggests that, when the term non-conventual' is used in documents emanating from Kennedy's successors (Graham and Scheves), we should interpret... |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5219 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Innes review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/inr.2017.0128 |