The infirmary: footnotes

Footnotes: Infirmary

1. Hope, Architectural Description, p. 39.

2. Hope, Architectural Description, p. 39.

3. Hope, Architectural Description, p. 41.

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4. Ecclesiastica Officia: 91 (p. 262).

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5. In the thirteenth century the infirmarer at Roche seemingly had his own lodgings beside the abbot’s house, Kinder, Cistercian Europe, p. 364

6. References to lay practitioners as witnesses in charters infer that medics were occasionally called in to minister to the community. For examples, see Talbot and Hammond, A Biographical Register of the Medical Practitioners, pp. 50, 71, 200 (Kirkstall); pp 2, 241, 272, 326 (Fountains); pp. 1, 23, 50 (Rievaulx).

7. Bell, English Cistercians and medicine, p. 152.

8. Bell, English Cistercians and medicine, pp 153-7.

9. Jesus College Cambridge MS (see Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Space, pp 157-8).

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10. Ecclesiastica Officia 90: 1-75 (pp 254-6); Kinder, Cistercian Abbeys of Europe, pp. 278-9.

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Kirkstall Abbey Bibliography