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The Origins and University Connections of Yorkshire Religious, 1480–1540

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Claire Cross
Claire Cross*
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University of York
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In his discussion of the composition of monasteries in the diocese of Lincoln in the early sixteenth century Dom David Knowles wrote ‘that recruits came, so to say, in response to advertisement’, and then went on to add ‘it would seem clear that in the majority of the houses almost all the recruits were local.’ With its profusion of abbeys, priories, nunneries, and friaries Yorkshire provides a great deal of evidence for testing his hypothesis. Fairly confident conclusions can be reached about the geographical recruitment of the Cistercians as they continued to adopt toponymies, while the very considerable number of placenames used as surnames by members of other orders may at the very least intimate their origins in the relatively recent past. The social antecedents of the religious pose a more difficult problem but more random sources, particularly wills, give an indication of the levels of society from which they came. To counteract an impression of excessive localism which undue concentration upon this material might produce, details of their university attendance, degrees, and book ownership have also been included. These northerners belonged to a nation as well as to a region, and the intellectual horizons of a sizeable number of Yorkshire monks, canons, and friars, if not perhaps of many nuns, extended well beyond the limits of their county in the last fifty years before the dissolution.

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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 11: The Medieval Church: Universities, Heresy, and the Religious Life , 1999 , pp. 271 - 291
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1999 

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