While my dissertation is on Dominican pastoral care I recently came
across several fascinating texts on educating novices at Hill Monastic
Manuscript Library. Could anyone help me identify secondary sources
discussing the education of monastic or Augustinian/Carmelite novices in
the period from roughly the Third Lateran council to 1400 or so(I think
I have the Dominican and Franciscan materials well covered), or printed
editions of novice works from that period? Any contributions would be
greatly appreciated.
Dear Patrick,
Although covering a later period when practice had clearly changed
from the period you are dealing with, a fairly vivid pictures of
novices emerges in J.T. Fowler, ed., The Rites of Durham,
Publications of the Surtees Society, CVII (1902), written probably by
an ex-monk of Durham in the mid-16th century. I know of no
comparable description of life in a medieval monastery. Does anyone
else?
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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