William of Pagula’s "Speculum religiosorum, Abbas vel Prior" and Uthred of Boldon: The Authorship and Circulation of Two Fourteenth-Century Monastic Treatises
This article investigates the relationship between two important English monastic treatises, William of Pagula’s (d. c. 1332) Speculum religiosorum, and Abbas vel prior, a work sometimes attributed to Uthred of Boldon (c.1320-1397). The two works are guides to the monastic life, and they are both re...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Revue bénédictine
Year: 2017, Volume: 127, Issue: 2, Pages: 364-387 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
William, of Pagula -1332
/ William, of Pagula -1332, Speculum religiosorum
/ Abbas vel prior
/ Boldon, Uthred de 1320-1397
/ England
/ Religious life
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KBF British Isles KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the relationship between two important English monastic treatises, William of Pagula’s (d. c. 1332) Speculum religiosorum, and Abbas vel prior, a work sometimes attributed to Uthred of Boldon (c.1320-1397). The two works are guides to the monastic life, and they are both remarkable for including substantial compendia of monastic law. Leonard Boyle demonstrated that all of the material in Abbas vel prior appears in the longer Speculum. Boyle argued that Abbas vel prior was a later abbreviation, perhaps the work of Uthred. This paper argues that Abbas vel prior was an earlier version of the Speculum, and that the attribution to Uthred should be rejected. While the legal material in these works has attracted scholarly attention, this paper argues that their other, more conventional, contents should not be ignored. The paper also examines the distribution of the two works: Abbas vel prior was copied almost exclusively at Durham Cathedral Priory, while the Speculum religiosorum was copied in many locations for a variety of readers. The paper includes appendices describing all extant manuscripts. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-0893 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue bénédictine
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.RB.5.114643 |