Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania from the Twelfth to the Late Fourteenth Century

238 Pages·2011·1.467 MB·English

by  Emilia Jamroziak

SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS
ON MEDIEVAL BORDERS
MEDIEVAL TEXTS AND CULTURES OF NORTHERN EUROPE
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull
Wendy Scase, Chair, University of Birmingham
Adrian P. Tudor, Secretary, University of Hull
John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London
Julia Barrow, University of Nottingham
Lesley A. Coote, University of Hull
David Crouch, University of Hull
Paul Hardwick, Leeds Trinity and All Saints
Alan Hindley, University of Hull
Advisory Board
Andrew Ayton, University of Hull
David Bagchi, University of Hull
Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Olle Ferm, Stockholms universitet
Wim Hüsken, Stedelijke Musea Mechelen
Gerhard Jaritz, Central European University, Budapest
Peter Meredith, University of Leeds
Veronica O’Mara, University of Hull
Nigel F. Palmer, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Brigitte Schludermann, University of Hull
Michel Zink, Collège de France, Membre de l’Institut
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of this book
VOLUME 24
SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS
ON MEDIEVAL BORDERS
Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania
from the Twelfth to the Late Fourteenth Century
by
Emilia Jamroziak
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Jamroziak, Emilia.
Survival and success on medieval borders : Cistercian houses in medieval Scotland and
Pomerania from the twelfth to late fourteenth century. – (Medieval texts and cultures of
Northern Europe ; v. 24)
1. Cistercians – Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) – History – To 1500. 2.
Cistercians – Pomerania (Poland and Germany) – History – To 1500. 3. Monastic and
religious life – Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) – History – Middle Ages,
600-1500. 4. Monastic and religious life – Pomerania (Poland and Germany) – History
– Middle Ages, 600–1500.
I. Title II. Series
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Place-name Concordance xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Building Support Networks on the Frontiers: 47
Foundations and Founders
Chapter 2. Building Support Networks on the Frontiers: 77
Making and Keeping Benefactors and Friends
Chapter 3. Across the Border: 113
Mother Houses and Why They Mattered
Chapter 4. Bishops: Having Friends in High Places 141
Chapter 5. When Things Go Wrong: Violence and War 167
Conclusion 197
Index 203

ILLUSTRATIONS
Maps
Map 1, p. 6. Locations of the case-study Cistercian houses (English-Scottish
frontier).
Map 2, p. 6. Locations of the case-study Cistercian houses in the diocese of Kamień
(Pomerania and Neumark).
Map 3, p. 14. Ecclesiastical divisions of Scotland c. 1274.
Map 4, p. 19. Pomerania and its neighbours between the twelfth and fourteenth
centuries.
Map 5, p. 25. Neumark in the fourteenth century.
Tables
Table 1, p. 80. The relationship of the Ryedale family with Melrose Abbey.
Table 2, pp. 94–95. List of all known individuals buried at Melrose with dates of
death/burial, location of their graves, and charters that they are known to have
granted to the abbey as well as their appearance as witnesses to other grants for
Melrose.