Dear John
I am familiar with Landini's work on the clericalization of
the Friars Minor. Do any similar studies exist for the monastic order?
Yours
Colmán O'Clabaigh, OSB
Glenstal Abbey
Ireland
Otto Nußbaum, Kloster, Priestermönch und Privatmesse: Ihr Verhältnis im Westen von den Anfängen bis zum hohen Mittelalter, Theophaneia, 14 (Bonn: Peter Hanstein Verlag, 1961), esp. pp. 132-33, where from 800 to the tenth century ordained monks are claimed to have increased from one third to more than one half of all monks. Ibid., pp. 185-203, offers data on the steadily increasing number of altars. See also Jean Leclercq, “Le sacerdoce des moines,” Irėnikon, 36 (1963), 5-40, esp. 11-15 [This may be Englished somewhere, but I do not have the reference at hand now]; Cyrille Vogel, “Le nombre des autels dans les lieux des culte,” in “Note et Communication: La multiplication des messes solitaires au moyen âge, essai de statistique,” Revue des sciences religieuses, 55 (1981), 206-13, esp. 206-210; and in “Deux consėquences de l’eschatologie grėgorienne: la multiplication des messes privėes et les moines-prêtes,” in Grėgoire le Grand: Chantilly, Center culturel Les Fontaines, 15-19 septembre 1982, ed. Jacques Fontaine, Robert Gillet, and Stan Pellistrandi, Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1986), pp. 267-76, esp. 271-74.
--John Howe, Texas Tech
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