Fountains Abbey: The story of a mediAEval monastery

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE BEGINNING
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The Abbey and the Elm	1
St. Stephen Harding	3
The founding of Citeaux (Cistercium)	4
The pursuit of Poverty	6
The coming of St. Bernard	8
Cistercians at Rievaulx	9
Discontent at St. Mary’s, York	10
Departure of the Monks	12
The founding of Fountains, 1132	13
St. Bernard receives the Abbey into his Order	14
The starving time	15
The arrival of prosperity	16
CHAPTER II THE GROWTH OF THE ABBEY I. COLONIES
The Monks appreciated by their neighbours	20
Newminster founded, 1137	22
Kirkstead, 1138	23
Louth Park, 1138	23
Woburn, 1145	23
Lisa-Kloster, 1146	24
Kirkstall, 1147	25
Vandey, 1147	25
Meaux, 1150	27
II. BUILDINGS
The Cistercian plan	28
The Architect	29
Nave and transepts [in their present form]	30
Built by Abbot Richard, the first, 1132-1139	31
And Abbot Richard, the second, 1139-1143	32
Abbot Henry Murdac, 1143-1147	33
The Fire	35
Eastern range of cloister, and part of Western	36
Built by Abbot Richard, the third, 1147-1170	36
Abbot Robert the Strenuous, 1170-1179	37
Builds Southern range and completes Western	38
Abbot William, 1179-1190	38
Abbot Ralph Haget, 1190-1203	38
Abbot John of York, 1203-1211	40
Abbot John of Ely, 1211-1220	42
Abbot John of Kent, 1220-1247	43
Builds Chapel of Nine Altars and Infirmary	44
CHAPTER III THE DAILY LIFE OF THE MONKS
The wall, the porter’s lodge	45
The chapel, the mill, bake-house and brew-house	46
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