>>Does anyone know of any good basic books or guides on the
>Schottenkloster in Bavaria and Austria, in English?, especially on
>their libraries?
>
>Someone who writes quite a lot about Schottenkloster in English is Mark
>Dilworth O.S.B.; cf. his The Scots in Franconia (1973).
DILWORTH M, The Scots in Franconia: a century of monastic life 1974
Edinburgh:Scottish Academic Press
London: Chatto & Windus
ISBN 07011 19349
USA Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 08747 14532
He is now (since 1991) Abbot of
St Benedict's Abbey
Fort Augustus
Inverness-shire
Scotland PH32 4DB
Fax +44 1320 366228
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They have a site at www.monk.co.uk
He has not much time for history now as the process of keeping Fort
Augustus going is quite demanding. It is the only monastery in the
world with a monster in the immediate neighbourhood: it is a
substantial - but scarcely liquidisable - asset, since every
tourist wants to see it. Hence the Abbey's income. Well worth a
visit if you are within 100 miles
There were Schottenklo"stern in Wu"rzburg, Regensburg, Vienna,
Erfurt, but only Regensburg and Wu"rzburg carried much weight.
They were (probably) originally Irish, but acquired genuine Scots
(that is, a now recognised by the European Union, and others)
about 1500, if I recall right. People in the Middle Ages found the
distinction between Irish and Scottish rather difficult to grasp:
it is far from difficult in modern Northern Ireland, I regret to
say.
The Schottenklo"stern were supressed, like other monasteries, in
1803, but Regensburg was allowed to continue till 1862 because
Ludwig the Somethingth liked its seminary. The last survivor, Fr
Anselm Robertson, spent about a year in the community when Fort
Augustus was founded in 1878, but unfortunately he did not stay,
but the Fort certainly has a certain moral continuity. (Also, the
last survivor of Lamspringe (also in Germany), as revived at
Broadway, Worcs, in the 1830's, died amember of Forth Augustus
exactly 100 years ago (29 Oct 1897: his name was Br Denis Tootell.
Wu"rzburg was squashed flat in 1945, and has been rebuilt: it is
now in the hands of another order, who appear not to know Joseph.
There is a nice abbatial gravestone in the Marienkirche there,
which shows him wearing a hood like the one we English monks wear,
which other benedictines tend to think is rather peculiar. Ah
well, these modern foundations...
Anselm Cramer OSB
hoping that Abbot Mark, if he sees this, will forgive...
Anselm Cramer OSB
Ampleforth Abbey, York
GB - YO6 4EN
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