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Footnotes: Death and
burial
1. From the Exordium Magnum II:
5, cited in B. McGuire, Friendship and Faith: Cistercian Men, Women and
their Stories 1100-1250 (Aldershot, 2002), essay V, pp. 249-268,
at p. 258.
2.In 1152 burial was permitted to sovereigns
and prelates; in 1157 this was extended to founders and in 1217 to all who
wished if they
had the permission of their parish priest, Statuta
capitulorum generalium ordinis Cisterciensis ab anno 1116 ad annum 1786,
ed. J. Canivez (8 vols; Louvain, 1933-41), I, 1152: 10 (p. 47); 1157: 63
(p. 68); 1217: 3 (p. 465).
3. J. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey and
its Benefactors 1132-1300 (1987, Kalamazoo), pp. 263, 209.
4. The Coucher Book of the Cistercian
Abbey of Kirkstall, ed. W. T. Lancaster and W. P. Baildon, Thoresby
Society VIII (Leeds, 1904), pp. 200-1; p. 66.
5. Wardrop, Fountains Abbey,
p. 225.
6. D. Williams, The Cistercians in
the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998), p. 133.
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7. Williams, Cistercians in the Early
Middle Ages, p. 135.
8. Canivez, Statutes I: 1191:
78 (p. 145).
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9. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The
Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Oxford, 1950),
pp. 59-64.
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10. Ecclesiastica Officia ch.
116 (pp. 326-8).
11. References to lay practitioners as
witnesses in charters imply that medics were occasionally called in to minister
to the community. For examples, see C. Talbot and E. A. Hammond, A
Biographical Register of the Medical Practitioners in England (London,
1965), pp. 50, 71, 200 (Kirkstall); pp. 2, 241, 272, 326 (Fountains); pp.
1, 23, 50 (Rievaulx).
12. D. Bell, ‘The English Cistercians
and the practice of medicine’ , Cîteaux 40 (1989), pp. 139-73,
at p. 152.
13. See Bell, ‘English Cistercians and
medicine’ , pp. 153-7.
14. Jesus College Cambridge MS (see M.
Cassidy-Welch, Monastic
Spaces and their Meanings (Turnhout, 2001), pp. 157-8).
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