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Bibliography: Cistercians in Britain

Primary sources

Bernard of Clairvaux, The Letters of St Bernard of Clairvaux, tr. B. S. James, rev. B. Kienzle (Stroud, 1998), letter 385.

Brut Y Tywysogion, or, The Chronicle of the Princes, trans. and intro. T. Jones (Cardiff, 1955).

English Episcopal Acta II Canterbury 1162-90, ed. C. R. Cheney and B.E. A. Jones (London, 1986), no. 106, pp. 84-5.

Letters from the English Abbots to the General Chapter at Citeaux (London, 1967).

Stephen of Lexington, Letters from Ireland 1228-9, tr. B. O’Dwyer (Kalamzoo, 1982), ep. 89, pp. 188-91.

Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium-Courtier’s Trifles, ed. and tr. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford, 1982).

William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings, ed. and tr. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom (2 vols., Oxford, 1998-9).

William of Newburgh, The History of English Affairs, bk I, ed. and trans. P. G. Walsh and M. J. Kennedy (Warminster, 1988).

Secondary sources

Birch, W., Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum I (1887), no. 4434 (p. 839).

Constable, G., ‘Aelred of Rievaulx and the nun of Watton: an episode in the early history of the Gilbertine Order’, in ed. D. Baker, Medieval Women (Oxford, 1978), pp. 205-26.

Cross, C., Monks, Friars and Nuns in Sixteenth-Century Yorkshire, Yorkshire Arch Soc. Rec. Ser. 150 (Huddersfield, 1995), p. 9.

Donnelly, J. S., ‘Changes in the grange economy of English and Welsh abbeys 1300-1540’, Traditio 10 (1954) pp. 399-458.

Golding, B., Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order (Oxford, 1995).

Graham, R., ‘The Great Schism and the English Monasteries of the Cistercian Order’, English Historical Review xliv, pp. 373-87.