The Cartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire: The Landscape Realities and Documentary Defences of an Abbey Site in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

This article outlines recent work to edit the thirteenth-century cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, and highlights the manuscript's potential as a case study for deeper understandings of cartulary compilation. Adopting new approaches to cartulary studies, it outlines...

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主要作者: Dutton, Kathryn (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Brepols 2023
In: The journal of medieval monastic studies
Year: 2023, 卷: 12, Pages: 77-121
IxTheo Classification:AF Geography of religion
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages
KBF British Isles
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B Hunting
B Lincolnshire
B Codicology
B landscape studies
B cartularies
B Cistercians
B Tattershall
B Kirkstead Abbey
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总结:This article outlines recent work to edit the thirteenth-century cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, and highlights the manuscript's potential as a case study for deeper understandings of cartulary compilation. Adopting new approaches to cartulary studies, it outlines the striking method and circumstances of the cartulary's compilation in 1259-1260 and its extensive additions c. 1310. Instead of beginning a codex from scratch, a compiler-scribe drew together and radically expanded a suite of cartulary sections already begun in earlier decades by multiple scribes. The article also examines in depth the specific landscape and patronal contexts which catalysed archival rationalization and what this reveals about the abbey's interaction with its locale. The cartulary confirms hunting as a major influence on Kirkstead's development, though not in a typically combative way as evidenced elsewhere and reveals the abbey's important part in the evolution of Tattershall Chase. The case of Kirkstead indicates how the evolution of a Cistercian landscape proceeded in lockstep with the development of its archive and how cartularization was a process rather than a moment in a house's archival history.
ISSN:2034-3523
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of medieval monastic studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1484/J.JMMS.5.135313