On Sun, 4 May 1997, Monastery Library wrote:
> Put that another way: I think (but please knock this one over if you have
> some figures) that the biggest Black Monk (ie OSB, not Cistercian) house
> in Britain since Augustine came to Canterbury (14th centenary in progress)
> was Ampleforth in about 1960, being around 150. Even now at just under
> 100 it is bigger than medieval Westminster or Canterbury, though possibly
> not Durham.
One of my favorite anecodotes for shocking students into thinking again
about what they think they know, is from anthropologist Victor Turner's
work on pilgrimages (my notes aren't to hand, but I can chase up the
precise reference if anyone wants it): he estimates that there are now
considerably more pilgrimage shrines in Europe than at any time during the
middle ages
> PS Numbers, of course, are not the whole story...
It gets the good ones thinking about that, too
Adina Hamilton
History Dept
University of Melbourne
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