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Bibliography: Roche Abbey

Primary sources

The Account Book of Beaulieu Abbey, ed S. F. Hockey (Camden Soc., 4th ser. 16; 1975).

Clairvaux Breve et Memoriale Scriptum in ed C. Waddell, Cistercian Lay Brothers: Twelfth-century Usages with related texts (Brecht, 2000).

‘De Visitatione Abbatis’ in The Latin Poems Commonly Attributed to Walter Map, coll. and ed T. Wright (Camden OS 16, 1841), pp. 184-7.

‘The foundation of Kirkstall Abbey’, tr. E. K. Clark in Miscellanea, Thoresby Soc. IV (Leeds, 1895), pp. 169-208.

Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, ed. H. T. Riley, 3 vols. (London, 1867-9).

Les Ecclesiastica Officia Cisterciens du xii siecle, ed. D. Choisselet and P. Vernet (Reinigue, 1989).

Memorials of the Abbey of St Mary of Fountains I, ed. J. R. Walbran, Surtees Soc. 42 (Durham, 1863).

Michael Sherbrook’s account of the spoliation of Roche in Tudor Treatises, ed. A. G. Dickens, YAS Rec. Ser. 125 (Wakefield, 1959), pp. 123-126.

Narrative and Legislative Texts, ed. C. Waddell (Citeaux, 1999).

‘Roche Abbey charters’ , ed. S. O. Addy, Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 4: 3 (1932-4), pp. 226-48.

Select Sixteenth-Century Causes in Tithe from the York Diocesan Registry, ed. J. S. Purvis, Yorkshire Arch. Society Record Series 114 (Wakefield, 1949).

Statuta Capitulorum Generalium Ordinis ab anno 1116 ad anno 1786 8 vols (Louvain, 1933-41), ed. J. M. Canivez.

Usus Conversorum, Cistercian Lay-Brothers: Twelfth-Century Usages with Related Texts, ed. C. Waddell (Brecht, 2000).

Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Edinburgh, 1978)

 

Secondary sources

Aveling, J. W., The History of Roche Abbey from its Foundation until its Dissolution (Worksop, 1870).

Baildon, W. P., ed., Notes on the Secular and Religious Houses of Yorkshire, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 17 (1895).

Bell, D., An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain (Kalamazoo, 1992).

Bell, D., ‘English Cistercians and medicine’ , Citeaux 40 (1989), pp. 139-73.

Burnett, G., Roche Abbey: Guide to the Ancient Home of the Cistercians (Rotherham, 1919).

Cassidy-Welch, M., Monastic Spaces and their Meaning (Turnhout, 2001).

The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain: Far from the Concourse of Men, ed. D. Robinson (London, 1998).

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

Donkin, P., The Cistercians: Studies in the Geography of Medieval England and Wales, Studies and Texts: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies 38 (Toronto, 1978).

Dugdale, W., Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. J. Carley, H. Ellis, and B. Bandinel (6 vols in 8; London, 1846).

English and Barr, ‘The records formerly in St Mary’s Tower, York pt 1’ , Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 42, pp. 128-235.

Ewart, A., ‘An early manuscript of the ‘Roman des Romans’ , Modern Language Review 23 (1928), pp. 299-306.

Fairbank, F. R., ‘Roche Abbey: further reports on excavations there’ , Assoc. Arch. Soc. Reports and Papers 19 (1883), pp. 392-7.

Faull, M., and Moorhouse, S., West Yorkshire: an Archaeological Survey to 1500 (1981), 3, pp. 793-4.

Fergusson, P., Roche Abbey, English Heritage (London, 1990, rep. 1999).

Fergusson, P., ‘Porta Patens Esto: notes on early Cistercian gatehouses in the north of England’ , in Medieval Architecture and its Intellectual Context: Studies in Honour of Peter Kidson (London, 1990), pp. 47-59.

Glover J. E. B., et al., The Place-names of Nottinghamshire, English Place Name Society (Cambridge, 1940).

Goodall, A., Place-Names of SW Yorkshire (Cambridge, 1913).

Harper-Bill, C.,Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’ , Bulletin of Historical Research 53 (1980), pp. 103-114.

Kinder, T., Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation (Kalamzoo, 2002).

Smith, A. H., Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire I, English Place Name Society XXX (Cambridge, 1961).

Talbot C., and Hammond, E. A., A Biographical Register of the Medical Practitioners (London, 1965).

Thompson, A. H., Roche Abbey (London, 1954).

Williams, D., The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998)

Woodward, G. O., The Dissolution of the Monasteries (London, 1966).