Lina Eckenstein - Woman under Monasticism

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Liming,’ vol. 1, p. 452.

Jenkins, R. C., in Gentleman’s Magazine , 1862, August, p. 196 quotes this statement; I do not see where he takes it from.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, p. 144.

Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , 1862, vol. 1, p. 475.

Gocelinus, Vita St Wereburgae , c. 1 (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl. , vol. 155).

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 130 footnote.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Sheppey,’ vol. 2, p. 49.

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 123.

Bede, Hist. Eccles. , bk 3, ch. 8, transl. Gidley, 1870.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Thanet,’ vol. 1, p. 447; Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , 1862, on lives of St Mildred, vol. 1, p. 376; A. SS. Boll. , St Mildreda, July 13.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, July 13.

Smith and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography , article ‘Mildred’ by Bishop Stubbs.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Thanet,’ vol. 1, p. 447.

A. SS. Boll. , St Milburga, Feb. 23.

Ibid., St Mildwida, Jan. 17.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , Jan. 17.

‘Lives of Women Saints’ (written about 1610) p. 64, edited by Horstman for the Early Engl. Text Soc., London, 1887.

Haddon and Stubbs, Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents , 1869, vol. 3, p. 240.

‘Upmynstre, Suthmynstre, Folcanstan, Limming, Sceppeis.’

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Whitby,’ vol. 1, p. 405.

Bede, Eccl. Hist. , bk 4, ch. 23 transl. Gidley, 1870. Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Hartlepool,’ vol. 6, p. 1618, places the foundation about the year 640.

Bede, Eccl. Hist. bk 3, chs. 24-25; bk 4, chs. 23-24.

A. SS. Boll. , St Bega, Sept. 6; Tomlinson, G. C., Life and Miracles of St Bega , 1839.

Carthularium abbathiae de Whiteby , publ. Surtees Soc., 1879.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 23, translat. Gidley, 1870, with additions and alterations.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 5, ch. 3.

Bede, Life of St Cuthbert , ch. 10; Dugdale, Monasticon , vol. 1, p. 233, mentions Easington only as a manor of Durham.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Hackness,’ vol. 3, p. 633.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 23.

Dictionary of Nat. Biography , article ‘Caedmon’ by Henry Bradley.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 24, transl. Gidley, 1870.

Haigh, D. H., ‘On the monasteries of St Heiu and St Hild,’ Yorksh. Archaeolog. Journal , vol. 3, p. 370. I do not know on what authority Haigh designates Heiu as saint.

Gray, de Birch, Fasti Monastici Aevi Saxonici , 1872, p. 15.

Comp. below, p. 106.

Charlton, L., History of Whitby , 1779, p. 33.

Raine, Historians of the Church of York , Rolls series, vol. 1, Preface p. xxvii. This volume contains reprints of several accounts of the life of Wilfrith, including the one by Eddi.

A. SS. Boll. , St Withburga, March 17; Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘East Dereham,’ vol. 2, p. 176.

Haigh, D. H., ‘On the monasteries of St Heiu and St Hild,’ Yorkshire Archaeol. Journal , vol. 3, p. 352, decides in favour of Aethelric.

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 235.

Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Coldingham,’ vol. 6, p. 149. The promontory of St Abb’s Head retains her name. She is believed to have founded another religious settlement at a place in Durham on the river Derwent called Ebbchester, and the village church there is dedicated to her ( Dict. of Nat. Biog. ).

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 19.

A. SS. Boll. , St Etheldreda June 23, Thomas of Ely, Vita ch. 41.

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 252 footnote.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 19.

Kalendre of the newe Legende of Englande , printed 1516 (Pynson) fol. 39 b.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 19.

Dictionary of National Biography , ‘Etheldreda, Saint.’

Bentham, History of Ely , 1817, p. 9.

Gocelinus, Vita St Wereburgae (in Migne, Patrol. Cursus Compl. vol. 155).

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, p. 49, calls it Weedon in Northamptonshire; Dugdale, Monasticon , ‘Wedon,’ vol. 6, p. 1051, doubts its existence.

Life of St Werburgh , 1521, reprinted for the Early Engl. Text Soc., 1887.

Stanton, R., Menology of England and Wales , 1887, p. 49.

Livien, E. ‘On early religious houses in Staffordshire,’ Journal of the British Archaeolog. Assoc. , vol. 29, p. 329. (The widespread cult of St Werburg may be due to there having been several saints of this name; comp. Stanton, R., Menology .)

Eddi, Vita , c. 34 (in Raine, Historians of the Church of York , Rolls series).

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 300, casts discredit on this story, which is told by Eddi, Vita , c. 38.

Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, pp. 301 ff.

Hardy, Th. D., Descriptive Catalogue of Materials , 1862, vol. 1, pp. 297 ff.

Bede, Life of St Cuthbert , ch. 10.

Bede, Eccles. History , bk 4, ch. 25.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives 679 as the date of the fire; Eddi’s account represents Aebbe as alive in 681. Perhaps she died in 680; comp. Smith and Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography , 1877, Ebba, nr 1; also Bright, W., Early English Church History , 1878, p. 300, footnote.