Anglo-Saxon Monasticism

General Resources

Class outline

Dr. Vess's virtual tour of St. Augustine's Peter and Paul church, later known as St. Augustine's Abbey

The Mission of Augustine of Canterbury Web Site

Dr. Vess's introduction to the life and writings of the Venerable Bede

Dr. Vess on Bede's Ecclesiastical History still under construction.

Roger Schoenbechler's biographies of Anglo-Saxon Monastic Women (access restricted to Dr. Vess's GC&SU students)

The Role of Benedictine Women Before the Gregorian Reform paper by Dr. Vess.

Dr. Vess's Virtual Tour of Whitby most of the ruins of Whitby date from the Anglo-Norman period, but Whitby was one of the great Northumbrian foundations.

 

Primary Sources

Latin letter of Gregory the Great to Augustine

Bede: Lives of the Abbots of Wearmoth and Jarrow

Rudolf of Fulda: Life of Leoba

St. Boniface and the Conversion of Germany; Primary sources from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Monasticism in England after the Anglo-Saxon period

For resources on Anglo-Norman monasticism, consult the Cluny and other reforms of the Central Middles Ages page.

Dr. Vess's Virtual Tour of Canterbury

Dr. Vess's Virtual Tour of the Hermitage of Robert of Knaresborough

For resources on the later Middle Ages, consult the Dissolution of the Monasteries page.