Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’S Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City, and the Wider World (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2014)
- Episcopal acta in Normandy, 911–1204: the Charters of the Bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées
- Richard II de Normandie: figure princière et transferts culturels (fin dixième–début onzième siècle)
- Royal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France, and the Empire c. 1050–c. 1250
- History, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae
- Canterbury Cathedral Priory’s Bath House and Fish Pond
- Tam Anglis quam Danis: ‘Old Norse’ Terminology in the Constitutiones de foresta (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay, 2014)
- Quadripartitus, Leges Henrici Primi and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century
- John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy
- Trade and Travel in England during the Long Twelfth Century
- The Emperor’s Robe: Thomas Becket and Angevin Political Culture
- The Illustrated Archetype of the Historia Normannorum: Did Dudo of Saint-Quentin write a ‘chronicon pictum’?
- The Biography of a Place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire, c. 900–1200
- Contents Of Volumes 1–36
Canterbury Cathedral Priory’s Bath House and Fish Pond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Editor’S Preface
- Dedication
- Abbreviations
- Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City, and the Wider World (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2014)
- Episcopal acta in Normandy, 911–1204: the Charters of the Bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées
- Richard II de Normandie: figure princière et transferts culturels (fin dixième–début onzième siècle)
- Royal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France, and the Empire c. 1050–c. 1250
- History, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae
- Canterbury Cathedral Priory’s Bath House and Fish Pond
- Tam Anglis quam Danis: ‘Old Norse’ Terminology in the Constitutiones de foresta (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay, 2014)
- Quadripartitus, Leges Henrici Primi and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century
- John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy
- Trade and Travel in England during the Long Twelfth Century
- The Emperor’s Robe: Thomas Becket and Angevin Political Culture
- The Illustrated Archetype of the Historia Normannorum: Did Dudo of Saint-Quentin write a ‘chronicon pictum’?
- The Biography of a Place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire, c. 900–1200
- Contents Of Volumes 1–36
Summary
Changes in monasticism in the century following the Norman Conquest may be recognized with the help of two documents. Archbishop Lanfranc’s Decreta, written c. 1077, make reference on occasion to the buildings which he had newly constructed for the monks at Canterbury. Along with the surviving remains, these references allow for a reconstruction of his ideas on monastic organization at the start of Norman rule. A second document, from the late 1150s, shows the entire precinct with the cathedral church and thirty of its surrounding buildings resulting from the extensive renovations undertaken by Prior Wibert (c. 1153–67). The depiction of the buildings, their relationships, and the disposition of the open courts is sufficiently accurate to discern the changes made to Lanfranc’s earlier design.
The usefulness of comparing the two documents may be illustrated by following one feature of monastic life: hospitality to strangers. Under Lanfranc this valued responsibility was accommodated in a single, sizeable building, the west range of the cloister. Located at the very heart of the community, this hospitality building testifies to Benedictine commitment to Christ’s injunctions in the Gospels: ‘I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me’ (Matthew 24:35). What this entailed in the early Norman period is detailed in Lanfranc’s instructions about hospitality. The monks were to ‘have ready in the guest house beds, chairs, tables, towels, cloths, tankards, plates, spoons, basins, and suchlike – firewood also’. That Canterbury served as a model for Benedictine communities was confirmed at Norwich cathedral around 1100 and the royal abbey of Bury St Edmunds around 1120. Both institutions follow Lanfranc’s placement of strangers’ quarters.
Under Prior Wibert, however, provisions for hospitality shifted dramatically. The drawing indicates that the west range of the cloister lies emptied of guests. Four separate buildings provide hospitality in widely dispersed areas of the precinct. In the extreme eastern part, the nova camera (new chamber), as it is labelled in the titulus, accommodated nobles and aristocrats in what was a likely courtyard complex accessed through an imposing two-storey entry arch.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 37Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2014, pp. 115 - 130Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015