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• W2929294709 abstract "REVIEWS James P. Carley, Glastonbury Abbey: The Holy House at the Head of the Moors Adventurous (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1988). xxv, 189. T16.95 cloth. Illustrated. Carley’s book about Glastonbury Abbey deals with the history as well as the sacred, mythical, literary, and other associations of one of the most illustrious monastic institutions of the English past. It surveys the full range of facts, beliefs, traditions, and fantasies that have made this monastery perhaps the most revealing mirror of the spiritual life of England during the Middle Ages. To students of secular and religious history, myth, and folklore Glaston­ bury has long been a name to conjure with. Inextricably connected with the Arthurian legend, it has also cast a large and brooding shadow over a large and noble body of literature. Part One, “Abbots and History,” divided into three chapters, which takes up nearly half the volume, relies primarily on three sources: William of Malmesbury’s The Early History of Glastonbury (from the 1120s); Adam of Damerham’s History of Glastonbury (c. 1290); and John of Glastonbury’s The Chronicle of Glastonbury (probably composed shortly after 1340), one of the later manuscripts of which contains a further summary up to 1493 by William Wyche. John recapitulated and revised the material in William and Adam and continued the account up to 1342. Carley’s history of the Abbey revolves around consecutive accounts of the abbots and their rule (where information is available), starting with the legendary abbacy of St. Patrick and ending with the execution of the last abbot, Richard Whiting, in 1539. The very early history is extremely nebulous, consisting, aside from brief accounts of the alleged abbacies of St. Patrick and his disciple St. Benignus, of mention of the names of three abbots during the following two centuries; only from the seventh century onward can an unbroken line be traced. Moreover, the chronology of the pre-Conquest abbots is, as Carley mentions, owing to the lateness and at times contradictory accounts of the sources not a little tentative. The author declares his purpose to be to “recreate” the history of the English Stud ies in Ca n a d a , x v i, 3 , September 19 9 0 Abbey “as the monks themselves imagined it.” Throughout Part One he manages to present his long train of information in a reasonably absorbing fashion, no mean feat considering the seemingly slow and monotonous flow of monastic life and the endlessly recurrent problems faced by the monks of Glastonbury, such as the power struggles of the abbots with the bishops of Wells. Fortunately, despite his above-stated intention, Carley does indulge to some degree in interpretation and theorization. Aside from commenting on particularly striking or puzzling pieces of information, he does at times come up with interesting suggestions with regard to seemingly matter-offact information concerning the lives of the people under scrutiny. Thus he suspects that the charges of sodomy against the twelfth-century abbot (and later bishop) Seffrid Pelochin may have resulted from his interest in gnosticism, evidenced by an emblem on his episcopal ring noted when his coffin was opened centuries later — gnosticism being in the Middle Ages often associated with homosexuality. The accounts of the careers and personalities of the abbots shed a good deal of light on the lives of their underlings and thus on English monasticism in general, not least in conjunction with parallels drawn from information concerning other monasteries; here the author’s familiarity with English monastic life and monastic libraries stands him in good stead. Thus when referring to Archbishop Arundel’s visitation to Glastonbury Abbey in 1408 and his recommendations toward deterring incontinence among monks, he points to the problems with the sins of the flesh at many English monasteries around this time, with special reference to Durham Priory. Carley is clearly in his element when dealing with the medieval monastic scene in conjunction with the unfolding of the long history of the Abbey. Less profitable is his occasional indulgence in conjecture about what may have occurred, such as his suggestion in connection with Abbot Chinnock that “it is tempting to speculate” that Chaucer, who seems to have been appointed a..." @default.
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