Christ Church, Canterbury
Church, Cult, and Codices

MDVL 6000
Summer 2005

Required Reading Assignments
due May 5

Wheeler, Bonnie. “Canterbury.” In Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, vol. 3, pp. 81-84. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983. [Waldo Library, Reference: DA114 .D5 1982; also RRC: DA114 .D51 1982]

Hoey, Lawrence. “Canterbury Cathedral.” In Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, ed. P. E. Szarmach et al., pp. 155-57. New York: Garland, 1998. [Waldo Library, Reference and RRC: DA129 .M43 1998]

due May 12

Brooks, Nicholas. “The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral Community, 597-1070.” In A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, and M. Sparks, pp. 1-37. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995; also RRC: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995 (for the corrected reprint edition of 2002)]

Gibson, Margaret. “Normans and Angevins, 1070-1220.” In A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, and M. Sparks, pp. 38-68. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995; also RRC: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995 (for the corrected reprint edition of 2002)]

due May 17

Colgrave, Bertram and R. A. B. Mynors, ed. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969, pp. 68-117. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR746 .B5 1969; also RRC: BR746 .B43 1969]

Clover, Helen and Margaret Gibson, ed. and trans. The Letters of Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 48-57. [Waldo Library, Stacks: DA199 .L2 A4 1979]

Schmitt, Franciscus Salesius, ed. S. Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera Omnia, v. 4, pp. 6-10. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1949.

Fröhlich, Walter, trans. The Letters of Saint Anselm of Canterbury, v. 2, pp. 11-17. Cistercian Studies Series 97. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1993. [Waldo Library, Stacks: BR754 .A56 A4 1990 v. 2]

Bosanquet, Geoffrey, ed. Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England. London: Cresset Press, 1965, pp. 212-31. [Waldo Library, Reserve: DA190 .E213 1964]

Hugh the Chantor, The History of the Church of York, 1066-1127. Trans. Charles Johnson. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961, pp. 108-19. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BR250 .S66 1961]

due May 19

Dobson, Barrie. “The Monks of Canterbury in the Later Middle Ages, 1220-1540.” In A History of Canterbury Cathedral, ed. P. Collinson, N. Ramsay, and M. Sparks, pp. 69-153. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Reserve: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995; also RRC: BX5195 .C3 H57 1995 (for the corrected reprint edition of 2002)]

due May 24

Willis, R. Chapter 3 [Gervase on the Burning and Repair of Christ Church]. In The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral, pp. 32-62. London: Longman, 1845.

Cragoe, Carol Davidson. “Reading and Rereading Gervase of Canterbury.” Journal of the British Archaeological Association 154 (2001), 40-53.

Draper, Peter. “William of Sens and the Original Design of the Choir Termination of Canterbury Cathedral, 1175-79.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42 (1983), 238-48. [Waldo Library, Stacks: NA1 .A327]

due May 26

Hearn, M. F. “Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Becket.” Art Bulletin 76 (1994), 19-52. [Waldo Library, JSTOR; also Waldo Library, Stacks: N11 .C4]

Kidson, Peter. “Gervase, Becket, and William of Sens.” Speculum 68 (1993), 969-91. [Waldo Library, JSTOR; also Waldo Library, Stacks and RRC: PN661 .S6]

Draper, Peter. “Interpretations of the Rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, 1174-1186: Archaeological and Historical Evidence.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 56 (1997), 184-203, 249. [Waldo Library, Stacks: NA1 .A327]

due May 31

Staunton, Michael, trans. Sections 52-58. In The Lives of Thomas Becket, pp. 203-19. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. [Waldo Library, Reserve: DA209 .T4 L58 2001]

Duggen, Anne J. “The Cult of St. Thomas Becket in the Thirteenth Century.” In St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford: Essays in His Honour, ed. Meryl Jancey, pp. 21-44. Hereford: Friends of Hereford Cathedral, 1982.

due June 2

Turner, D. H. “The Customary of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket.” The Canterbury Chronicle 70 (1976), 16-22.

due June 7

Gameson, Richard. “Books, Culture, and the Church in Canterbury around the Millennium.” In Vikings, Monks and the Millennium: Canterbury in about 1000 A.D., pp. 15-39. Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeological Society, 2000. [RRC: DA690 .C3 .E35 2000]

Webber, Teresa. “Script and Manuscript Production at Christ Church, Canterbury, after the Norman Conquest.” In Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars, 1066-1109, ed. R. Eales and R. Sharpe, pp. 145-58. London: Hambledon Press, 1995. [Waldo Library, Reserve: DA690 .C3 C26 1995; also RRC: DA 690 .C3 C261 1995]