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Cistercian hospitality
1. Ecclesiastica Officia, p. 334.
2. There were two guestmasters at Salem, Germany, in 1300; one tended ‘decent
folk’, the other ministered to ‘lower guests’, D. Williams,
The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), p. 127.
3. In the twelfth century the Empress Matilda made a grant to Mortemer in Rouen
for the erection of two stone houses so that there would be separate accommodation
for merchants, the poor, religious and the rich, Fondation de Mortemer, pp 149-68,
at p. 159.
4. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998),
p.
156.
5. Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales, tr. L. Thorpe (Harmondsworth,
1978),
p. 127.
6. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera III, ed. J. S. Brewer (Rolls Series),
pp 201-2.
7. Ecclesiastica Officia, p. 312.
8. Ecclesiastica Officia, p. 312; Rule of St Benedict, ch. 53.
9. The Testament of Gervase of Louth Park, ed. C. H. Talbot, Analecti
Sacri Ordinis
Cisterciensis, 7 (Rome, 1951), pp. 32-45, at p. 39.
10. Canivez, Statutes, I, 1215: 48.
11. Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1875),
p.
134.
12. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera IV, pp. 211-2.
13. Canivez, Statutes, I, 1192: 15; 1175: 8.
14. John of Salsibury, Ioannis Saresberiensis Episcopi Carnotensis Policratici,
ed.
C. Webb (2 vols.; Oxford, 1909), II, p. 326.
15. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium - Courtier's Trifles (1983), p. 86.
16. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Opera, IV, p. 212. For the different foods served
to
different guests in the late thirteenth century, see, for example the Beaulieu
Account Book, pp. 271, 273.
17. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Opera, IV pp. 210-11.
18. Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed. S. F. Hockey, Camden Soc. Fourth
Ser.
(1975),
pp. 271-276. For a summary of the account book, see C. Talbot, ‘The account
book of
Beaulieu Abbey’, Cîteaux in de Nederlanden (1958), pp. 189-210.
19. Tudor Treatises, pp. 94, 97.
20. For example, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp. 50 (figs), 51(walnuts),
56
(pears),
89 (fish), 25 (oysters), 49 (quails), 14, 19 (partridges), 61 (venison).
21. Coppack, Fountains Abbey, p. 141.
22. For example, see Memorials of Fountains III, pp. pp. 17, 18, 19, 59, 60,
61.
23. The Compotus of Sawley (1381), cited in Mullin, Cistercians
in Yorkshire,
p.
38.
24. Savine, English Monasteries on the Eve of the Dissolution, p. 241.
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