Benedictine reform and pastoral care in late Anglo-Saxon England
Francesca Tinti
This article challenges the traditional assumption that so‐called Benedictine reform produced a clear demarcation between secular and monastic communities in late Anglo‐Saxon England and, consequently, between, on one side, those who had pastoral responsibilities towards laity other, characterized by seclusion. Though to varying degrees, evidence available for both reformed newly founded suggests monks, especially serving urban cathedrals of Winchester, Worcester Canterbury, could be actively involved delivery such provisions as preaching, baptism, attending dying, burial. Monastic therefore represented yet another factor influencing lively quickly developing landscape England.
Early Medieval Europe