English Monastic Life (Annotated)

English Monastic Life is a lucid reconstruction of the daily world of pre-Reformation monasteries: the choir offices, chapter discipline, refectory customs, infirmary care, hospitality, almsgiving, study, estate management, and the varied duties of abbot, obedientiaries, and novices. Gasquet's prose is orderly, documentary, and gently apologetic, translating rules, account-books, visitation record...