Joan Greatrex
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Greatrex |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Greatrex |
| SIGNATURE | GREATREX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marian Studies and Devotion in the Benedictine Cathedral Priories in Later Medieval England
On 15 November 1407, in the monastic infirmary of Christ Church, Canterbury, Thomas Wykyng breathed his last with a prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary on his lips. The brethren in attendance, so the memoir continues, were convinced that at the moment of his departure the Blessed Virgin summoned him to herself (‘ad se evocavit’) because next to his trust in God he had always placed supreme confidence in her. He was remembered as a mode…
The Almonry School of Norwich Cathedral Priory in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
In 1535 the monks of Norwich Cathedral Priory made the following report: Each year there are thirteen boys dwelling within the monastery and receiving free instruction in the scola grammaticalis or ‘almery scole’. They are also given food and clothing, which costs us 26 s . 8 d . per head per annum. In addition a master is provided to teach the boys, together with a servant to attend to their other needs; the former is paid an annual stipend of 5…
The English Cathedral Priories and the Pursuit of Learning in the Later Middle Ages
It has frequently been observed that the intellectual activities of the English Black Monks were in decline during the last two-and-a-half centuries before the Dissolution. There is, indeed, a remarkable contrast between the fecundity of the monastic scriptoria in the two centuries after the Conquest and the apparent inertia of later years, when the creative stimulus seems to have dwindled to the verge of extinction and few, if any, original mind…
Monastic Charity for Jewish Converts
The controversy which concerns us now, as it once concerned the thirteenth-century participants, centres upon the king’s right to demand corrodies in monastic establishments for his own nominees. Thus it is necessary to begin by defining the term ‘corrody’ in the present context. In describing a corrody as ‘nothing more than an allowance consisting of a share in a common fund’, Professor Hamilton Thompson neatly encapsulated the multifarious form…
Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530
Journal Article Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530 Get access JOAN GREATREX JOAN GREATREX Symonds Yat, Herefords Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 555–583, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.555 Published: 01 July 1991
On Ministering to ‘Certayne Devoute and Religiouse Women’
It was not until after almost thirty years in the royal service and on the episcopal bench that Richard Fox retired to Winchester and turned his full attention to his pastoral office. There, at the age of sixty-eight and afflicted with failing eyesight, he set out to reform his flock. In a letter to Cardinal Wolsey he admitted that his mind had been ‘trowled nyght and daye with other mens enormites and vices’, and that he was anxious to ‘do soom …
Some Statistics of Religious Motivation
Motives are the inner springs of action, the invisible causes which are apprehended only in their visible effects. The latter, when collected and classified as numerical data, are known as statistics, through which at least one aspect of the former can be explored and analysed. Thus, while we cannot ask them to reveal such fundamental questions as to what moved men to enter or leave the monastic life, we can legitimately seek an answer in quantit…
Humanistic script in a monastic register
Learning to write the new humanistic script can surely be taken as a sign of humanistic interests’ in the fifteenth century. This is the conclusion of the compilers of a catalogue entitled Duke Humfrey and English Humanism in the Fifteenth Century which was produced in conjunction with an exhibition held in the Bodleian library, Oxford in 1970. As long as our interests are confined to the small circle of English humanists in this period who are k…
A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester
Journal Article A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester Get access Joan Greatrex Joan Greatrex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 50, Issue 122, November 1977, Pages 242–246, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1977.tb01719.x Published: 12 October 2007
Thomas Rudborne, monk of Winchester, and the council of Florence
One of the ways in which historians show their wisdom is by their reluctance to make general, definitive pronouncements. Is there anyone among us, for example, who can say with certainty that the spirit of ecumenism abroad today is deeper and more prevalent than in any preceding age? The history of ecumenical councils is the history of the Church’s constant striving to reconcile heretics and end schism. Furthermore, it is surely not true to say t…
Monastic Charity for Jewish Converts
The controversy which concerns us now, as it once concerned the thirteenth-century participants, centres upon the king’s right to demand corrodies in monastic establishments for his own nominees. Thus it is necessary to begin by defining the term ‘corrody’ in the present context. In describing a corrody as ‘nothing more than an allowance consisting of a share in a common fund’, Professor Hamilton Thompson neatly encapsulated the multifarious form…
Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530
Journal Article Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530 Get access JOAN GREATREX JOAN GREATREX Symonds Yat, Herefords Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 555–583, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.555 Published: 01 July 1991
Some Statistics of Religious Motivation
Motives are the inner springs of action, the invisible causes which are apprehended only in their visible effects. The latter, when collected and classified as numerical data, are known as statistics, through which at least one aspect of the former can be explored and analysed. Thus, while we cannot ask them to reveal such fundamental questions as to what moved men to enter or leave the monastic life, we can legitimately seek an answer in quantit…
A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester
Journal Article A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester Get access Joan Greatrex Joan Greatrex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 50, Issue 122, November 1977, Pages 242–246, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1977.tb01719.x Published: 12 October 2007
Thomas Rudborne, monk of Winchester, and the council of Florence
One of the ways in which historians show their wisdom is by their reluctance to make general, definitive pronouncements. Is there anyone among us, for example, who can say with certainty that the spirit of ecumenism abroad today is deeper and more prevalent than in any preceding age? The history of ecumenical councils is the history of the Church’s constant striving to reconcile heretics and end schism. Furthermore, it is surely not true to say t…
Humanistic script in a monastic register
Learning to write the new humanistic script can surely be taken as a sign of humanistic interests’ in the fifteenth century. This is the conclusion of the compilers of a catalogue entitled Duke Humfrey and English Humanism in the Fifteenth Century which was produced in conjunction with an exhibition held in the Bodleian library, Oxford in 1970. As long as our interests are confined to the small circle of English humanists in this period who are k…
A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester
Journal Article A Fourteenth-Century Injunction Book from Winchester Get access Joan Greatrex Joan Greatrex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 50, Issue 122, November 1977, Pages 242–246, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1977.tb01719.x Published: 12 October 2007
Some Statistics of Religious Motivation
Motives are the inner springs of action, the invisible causes which are apprehended only in their visible effects. The latter, when collected and classified as numerical data, are known as statistics, through which at least one aspect of the former can be explored and analysed. Thus, while we cannot ask them to reveal such fundamental questions as to what moved men to enter or leave the monastic life, we can legitimately seek an answer in quantit…
On Ministering to ‘Certayne Devoute and Religiouse Women’
It was not until after almost thirty years in the royal service and on the episcopal bench that Richard Fox retired to Winchester and turned his full attention to his pastoral office. There, at the age of sixty-eight and afflicted with failing eyesight, he set out to reform his flock. In a letter to Cardinal Wolsey he admitted that his mind had been ‘trowled nyght and daye with other mens enormites and vices’, and that he was anxious to ‘do soom …
Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530
Journal Article Monk Students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530 Get access JOAN GREATREX JOAN GREATREX Symonds Yat, Herefords Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXX, July 1991, Pages 555–583, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXX.555 Published: 01 July 1991
Monastic Charity for Jewish Converts
The controversy which concerns us now, as it once concerned the thirteenth-century participants, centres upon the king’s right to demand corrodies in monastic establishments for his own nominees. Thus it is necessary to begin by defining the term ‘corrody’ in the present context. In describing a corrody as ‘nothing more than an allowance consisting of a share in a common fund’, Professor Hamilton Thompson neatly encapsulated the multifarious form…
The Almonry School of Norwich Cathedral Priory in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
In 1535 the monks of Norwich Cathedral Priory made the following report: Each year there are thirteen boys dwelling within the monastery and receiving free instruction in the scola grammaticalis or ‘almery scole’. They are also given food and clothing, which costs us 26 s . 8 d . per head per annum. In addition a master is provided to teach the boys, together with a servant to attend to their other needs; the former is paid an annual stipend of 5…
The English Cathedral Priories and the Pursuit of Learning in the Later Middle Ages
It has frequently been observed that the intellectual activities of the English Black Monks were in decline during the last two-and-a-half centuries before the Dissolution. There is, indeed, a remarkable contrast between the fecundity of the monastic scriptoria in the two centuries after the Conquest and the apparent inertia of later years, when the creative stimulus seems to have dwindled to the verge of extinction and few, if any, original mind…
Marian Studies and Devotion in the Benedictine Cathedral Priories in Later Medieval England
On 15 November 1407, in the monastic infirmary of Christ Church, Canterbury, Thomas Wykyng breathed his last with a prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary on his lips. The brethren in attendance, so the memoir continues, were convinced that at the moment of his departure the Blessed Virgin summoned him to herself (‘ad se evocavit’) because next to his trust in God he had always placed supreme confidence in her. He was remembered as a mode…
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