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Origin and Early History of Double Monasteries

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M. Varin's learned monograph at present stands alone as an attempt to ascertain the origin of the double monastery, or monastery for men and women. He deals with the subject incidentally as part of a thesis on the points at issue between the Breton and Roman Church, and he handles his whole theme controversially. In spite of this fact, his argument on the subject of double monasteries has met with general acceptance, for example, from Montalembert, Ozanam, Haddan, Professor Mayor, and M. Maurice Prou. M. Varin seeks to prove that St. Rhadegund' foundation at Poitiers was the first example of this form of organisation among the Western nations of the Continent, and that its origin is directly traceable to Irish influences. It is the object of this essay to suggest a different conclusion, to collect the evidence on the subject from the scattered sources where alone it is at present accessible, and incidentally to criticise the arguments adduced by M. Varin.

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page 146 note 1 Varin's point, p. 193, that Arnegisil is described as abbot of the church of the Blessed Queen, and that the nuns had therefore both an abbot and an abbess, arises from his confusion of the dedications.

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page 148 note 1 Cap. 26 of the Council of Auxerre, 585, is sometimes referred to as an instance of a decree against double monasteries. The text will not bear this interpretation.

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page 150 note 1 But Gundlach in Neues Archiv., N.S. 15, 514, gives reason for thinking that it is not Columban's work.

page 151 note 1 Acta, Sæc. II. 25.

page 151 note 2 Ann. i. 305.

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page 151 note 4 Acta, Sæc. II. 121.

page 151 note 5 Hist. Eccles. Meld. i. 27, 642.

page 151 note 6 Bourges, the centre of a cluster of monasteries, may have had a double monastery at the time when St. Bertoara (c. 612) and St. Dutrille, Bishop of Bourges, with his successor St. Sulpice (624–644), were closely associated. Acta, Sæc. II. 97, 173; Ann. i. 297; Labbe, , Nova Bibl. MSS. ii. 364Google Scholar. Theodulfus Bobolenus' foundation at Charenton may have been served by monks. Gall. Christ, ii. 121, 175.

page 153 note 1 N. Archiv. f, ält. d. Gesch.kunde, xix. 49.

page 153 note 2 Ann. i. 338, 425, 503.

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page 154 note 1 Acta, Sæc. II. 317, 324.

page 154 note 2 Acta, ii. 421.

page 155 note 1 He read the office for her as she lay dying.

page 155 note 2 Ann. i. 440.

page 155 note 3 Hist. Lilt, de la France, iii. 444.

page 155 note 4 Donaticum on the Doubs, 629, for example. Ann. i. 348.

page 155 note 5 Ibid. i. 345–468.

page 155 note 6 Ibid.

page 155 note 7 Gall. Christ, xii. 269, 415; Acta SS. Bolland, April, I. p. 864; Ann. i. 366.

page 155 note 8 Holsten, i. 223.

page 155 note 9 Cap. xviii.

page 155 note 10 Gall. Christ, vii. 558.

page 156 note 1 Acta, II. 781; III. i. 21.

page 156 note 2 Hist. Litt. de la France, iii. 444.

page 156 note 3 Ann. i. 430.

page 156 note 4 Ibid. ii. 63, s. an. 721.

page 156 note 5 Acta, II. 720.

page 156 note 6 Acta, II. 984; Gall. Christ, iii. 395; Ann. i. 384; Le Glay, Camerac. Christiana.

page 157 note 1 Acta SS. Belg. IV. 481.

page 157 note 2 Bonnell, , Aufänge, p. 151Google Scholar, considers the life of S. Gertrude valueless historically. Rettberg, , Kirchengesch. Deutschlands, i. 564, accepts itGoogle Scholar. Cf. Hauck, , Kirchengesch. i. 282Google Scholar, and Wattenbach, , Gesch.quell, 5th ed., p. 122Google Scholar, for a note on an eighth-century MS. of the life. See Eckenstein, , Woman under Monasticism, p. 23Google Scholar.

page 158 note 1 Pagi, , Crit. Hist. Chronol. iii. 48Google Scholar (end) says of Nivelle in his days that it was a chapter of both sexes, in which ‘canonicæ virgines nobilissimæ digniorem locum obtinent et penes abbatissam ejusdem civitatis dominium est.’ On the tonsuring of the nuns, see Ann. i. 378b, 399a.

page 158 note 2 Hist. Litt. de la France, iii. 444.

page 158 note 3 Acta, II. 471.

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page 159 note 2 Gall. Christ, iii. 400; Ann. i. 595.

page 159 note 3 Ann. i. 386, 688; Gall. Christ, xvi. 147.

page 159 note 4 Acta, IV. i. 747. Sometimes ascribed to Remiremont.

page 159 note 5 Acta, II. 632; SS. Franche-Comté (1854) ii. 405–19; Ann. i. 415; Gall. Christ, xii. 534A, 565.

page 160 note 1 Labbé, Vita S. Waning, whom Sindard, a monk of Fontenelle, visited when journeying on monastic business. Ann. i. 447; Acta SS. Bolland, October, XI. pp. 679–84.

page 160 note 2 Acta, II. 529–621.

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page 161 note 1 Acta SS. Bolland, August, I. 353.

page 161 note 2 Acta, II. 686, note; Ann. i. 455, 482, 532.

page 161 note 3 Acta, II. 519. D' Achery and Mabillon favour the reading [S]uesona instead of Vesona. But Migne, , Pat. Lat. 120, col. 1367Google Scholar, thinks it may be Vesonne in Périgord.

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page 162 note 2 Ann. i. 469; ii. 10.

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page 162 note 6 Migne, Dicl, des Abbayes.

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page 163 note 2 Ann. ii. 139.

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page 165 note 1 Petrie, , Eccles. Archit. of Ireland, p. 197Google Scholar.

page 166 note 1 Aidus, , Triad Th. Colgan, p. 629Google Scholar.

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page 166 note 3 Her life in the Book of Lismore, ed. Stokes, makes mention of male servants and members of the household. According to a life in a Salamanca MS. monks dined with her (De Smedt, , Acta SS. Hiberniœ, p. 36)Google Scholar.

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page 166 note 5 On the legendary stories of a rule, see Ultan's, seventh-century life, and Leabhar Breac, p. xlviiGoogle Scholar.

page 166 note 6 ‘Mulierum administrationem et consortia non respuebant.’ Ussher gives the other reading, ‘nec laicos nee feminas de ecclesiis repellebant.’

page 166 note 7 ‘Abnegabant mulierum administrationem, separantes eas a monasteriis.’ The Brussels MS. has ‘mulierum quoque consortia ac administrationem fugiebant, atquc a monasteriis suis.’

page 167 note 1 Varin points to the ninth canon of the so-called synod of Bishops Patrick, Auxilius, and Isserninus. It merely forbids monks and virgins, travelling, to stay in the same hospice or to ride together. Furthermore the code contains anons which cannot have been framed before the eighth century. See Wasserschleben, and Haddan and Stubbs.

page 167 note 2 De Smedt, p. 485.

page 167 note 3 De Smedt, p. 807.

page 167 note 4 Ibid. p. 897; Acta SS. Bolland, III. August, 660.

page 167 note 5 De Smedt, p. 528.

page 167 note 6 Bolland, May, III. 379.

page 167 note 7 Page cxciii. (Whitley Stokes).

page 167 note 8 Todd, Anc. Irish Hymns.

page 168 note 1 O' Hanlon, , Irish Saints, iii. 996Google Scholar. Colgan refers to acts of Kieran, cap. xvi.

page 169 note 1 This must have been before Chelles was refounded by Bathilda, 662. Whether it was double or not before that there is nothing to show.

page 169 note 2 Of this group, as shown above, Brie alone can be certainly proved to be a double monastery in 640.

page 171 note 1 Beda, , Hist. Eccles. iv. 26Google Scholar. Cf. also the description of Hedda, ‘qui prius fuerat et monachus et abba.’William, of Malmesbury, , Gesta Pontif. p. 159Google Scholar.

page 171 note 2 Ewald, , ‘Studien z. Ausgabe des Registers Gregors I.’ in Neues Archiv f. ält. deut. Gesch.kunde., and Eng. Hist. Rev. 04 1888, p. 303Google Scholar.

page 171 note 3 Acta SS. Bolland, August, V. 197.

page 172 note 1 Mr. Hunt has kindly pointed out to me that there is a phrase in Beda's account of Cædmon which indicates a similar arrangement at Whitby: ‘Erat autem in proximo casa’ (iv. 24), i.e. in the infirmary adjoining Cædmon's ‘domuncula.’

page 172 note 2 Mr. Hunt observes that in the A.-S. versions of Beda and in William of Malmesbury, Ges. Reg. i. c. 77, Ethelred, the husband of Osthrytha, who together founded Bardney, is called Abbot of Bardney. See note 1 on p. 171.

page 173 note 1 Broughton, Memorial; Stanton, Menology; Levien, E., Journ. Brit. Arch, Ass. xxix. p. 329Google Scholar.

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page 175 note 1 Anthony, Paul, Hilarion, Benedict: ‘Cujus rei regulam nostra quoque mediocritas authentica veterum auctoritate subnixa.’

page 175 note 2 Opera, ed. Giles, , p. 79Google Scholar.

page 176 note 1 Ep. Bonif. ed. Jaffé, in Mon. Mogunt. ep. 10Google Scholar.

page 176 note 2 Beda, , Hist. Ecdes. iii. 21Google Scholar.

page 176 note 3 Mon. Hist. Brit. an. 638.

page 177 note 1 Reeves, , Adamnan, p. 177Google Scholar. Luger is named as her disciple.

page 177 note 2 Jenkins, , Archœl. Cantiana, ix. 205Google Scholar; x. ci,; Kemble, , Cod. Dipl. p. 188Google Scholar.

page 178 note 1 She is believed to have died at the end of the seventh century.

page 178 note 2 Haddan, and Stubbs, , Councils, iii. 238Google Scholar.

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page 178 note 4 Migne, , Pat. Lat. ci. col. 1309Google Scholar.

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page 179 note 1 Willibald's Life of Boniface; Jaffé, , Mon. Mogunt. p. 436Google Scholar.

page 179 note 2 Ep. 14: ‘Universarum commissarum animarum promiscui sexus et ætatis.’

page 179 note 3 On the vexed question of their identity, see Hahn's Bonifaz and Lull, and Zell's Lioba.

page 180 note 1 William of Malmesbury, Ges. Reg. Hardy, i. 49.

page 180 note 2 So Aldhelm, , Opera, ed. Giles, , p. 355Google Scholar.

page 180 note 3 Acta, III. i. 246.

page 181 note 1 Acta, III. ii. 245.

page 183 note 1 Acta SS. Bolland, II. January, 1033; Lecointe, Ann. 622, No. ix.; Ann. ii. 122, s. an. 743; Gall. Christ, v. 970.

page 183 note 2 Wartmann, , Urkundenbuch S. Gall. i. 7, 12Google Scholar. The Salzburg cases break down. A nunnery was founded by St. Rupert, Bishop of Salzburg, and by S. Erentrude, said to have been his sister, at Nunnberg, outside the walls, in the sixth or seventh century, but appears to have been separate from the monastery for men. Hund, , Metrop. Salisb. ii. 594Google Scholar; Basnage, , Thes. Mon. III. ii. 271Google Scholar; Acta, III. i. 348; Acta SS. Bolland, V. 580. See, too, Ann. i. 611.

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page 184 note 4 Acta, III. ii. 176, c. 21.

page 185 note 1 Acta, III. ii. 287.

page 185 note 2 Acta SS. Bolland, February, III. 516.

page 185 note 3 ‘Matrum pariter ae presbyterorum fungenles offciem, eosdem quod generaverint, ipsæ baptizant.’

page 186 note 1 Canons were on several occasions directed aqainst this abuse.

page 187 note 1 Acta, III. ii. 246.

page 187 note 2 Ann. ii. 268. See Rettberg, ii. 346; Le Cointe, vi. 244, on its false charter.

page 187 note 3 Cap. 7. See Man. Ger. Leges, i. 124.

page 187 note 4 Acta, IV. i.; Ann. ii. 471. Mabillon dates the house 836. For an account of a translation of relics of St. Pusinna to the nuns' house, written by a. monk of Corvti, see Acta SS. Bolland, April, 23, p. 170; Eckenstein, p. 147.

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page 188 note 2 Varin; Muratori, , Ant. Ital. Med. Æv. v. 527Google Scholar.

page 188 note 3 In the Dialogues, i. 4, Gregory tells several stories of Equitius, abbot of a monastery in the province of Valeria, which point to a close connection between his monks and a house of nuns.

page 188 note 4 Migne, , Pat. Lat. lxvi. 193Google Scholar; Dial. ii. 33, 34, col. 178.

page 189 note 1 Ep. xi. 25.

page 189 note 2 Baronius, , Ann. 616Google Scholar, from Paul, the Deacon, , Hist. Langobard, IV. c. 22Google Scholar. Mabillon (in Ann. i. 301, s. an. 613) questions if this alludes to monks.

page 189 note 3 Acta, II. 164.

page 189 note 4 Beda, , Hist. Eccles. iv. 1Google Scholar. Beda calls other double monasteries ‘monasteria virginum.’

page 189 note 5 Ann. ii. 154.

page 189 note 6 Ibid. 225.

page 189 note 7 Ibid. 236.

page 190 note 1 Muratori, , Ant. Ital. v. 527Google Scholar; Mus. Ital. p. 35; and Ann. ii. 147. Another nunnery under the protection of Monte Cassino was Sophia's, S., Beneventum, 775 (Ann. ii. 147)Google Scholar.

page 190 note 2 Canni, C., De Antiq. Eccles. Hisp. i. 123Google Scholar. There may have been a few monasteries still earlier (Scarmaglio, , Vind. Antiq. Mon. 1752Google Scholar).

page 190 note 3 Conc. Herda, can. 3; Hefele, ii. 706; Gams, II. i. 438.

page 191 note 1 Isidore, who presided over the council, writes in similar terms of prevailing practices in his De Eccles. Offic. II. c. 16; Hefele, iii. 72; Aguirre, ii. 462; Gonzalez, , Coleccion de Canones, p. 666, sqq.Google Scholar; Gams, iii. 88.

page 191 note 2 Florez, , Esp. Sag. xv. 145Google Scholar; Antonio, , Bibl. Vet. Hisp. i. 383Google Scholar.

page 191 note 3 Gams, II. ii. 153.

page 193 note 1 Eulogius, , ‘Memoriale,’ in Bibl. Pat. Max, xv, 266Google Scholar.

page 194 note 1 Holsten, , Cod. Reg. i. 208–19Google Scholar.

page 194 note 2 Ann. i. 404.

page 194 note 3 Ibid. ii. 264.

page 194 note 4 Ibid. ii. 324. Yepes, , Coron. General de la Orden de S. Benito, iii. 331Google Scholar.

page 194 note 5 Yepes, ibid. iv. 108, calls all the monasteries in Cordova double. He argues (iv. 106, sqq.) against ascribing them to the rule of St. Basil.

page 195 note 1 Eulogius, , Mem. iii. 10Google Scholar.

page 195 note 2 Acta SS. Bolland, September, V. 618.

page 195 note 3 Mem. iii. 8.

page 195 note 4 Ibid. iii. 10, June 7.

page 195 note 5 June 13, 853.

page 195 note 6 Esp. Sag. vii. App. i.

page 195 note 7 Mem. III. ii. October 16, 853.

page 196 note 1 Mem. iii. 17; Esp. Sag. ix. App. 8, No. 1, x. 260.

page 196 note 2 Mem. ii. 8.

page 196 note 3 Esp. Sag. xvi. 68.

page 196 note 4 Coron. Gen. v. f. 65, col. 3.

page 196 note 5 Ibid. iii. 337, col. 2.

page 196 note 6 Florez, xxvii. p. 125; Yepes, Coron. v. 319; Mabillon, Ann. sub an. 1022, 1033; M. Olasgoaca, ii. 2, 419.

page 196 note 7 Coron. iii. 276, col. 2, 3.

page 196 note 8 Mabillon, , Ann. iv. 222Google Scholar.

page 196 note 9 Ibid. p. 649. A. de Yepes writes that he has heard of more than two hundred double monasteries in Spain.