Benedictine Monks at the University of Paris, A.D. 1229-1500: A Biographical Register

This work presents biographical information concerning the 671 Benedictine and Cluniac monks identified as attending the University of Paris in the late Middle Ages. Special attention is given to the 126 monks from this group promoted to the doctorate in theology and canon law. The author has used a wide range of sources, discussed thoroughly in the introduction, in the preparation of this work. Primary resources include university, faculty and collegiate records, papal registers, abbatial lists, minutes of general chapters and church councils, necrologies and chartularies. The register should interest historians of both the medieval university and of monastic life. It provides information on the role religious orders played at the universities and on the effect university studies had on monastic life.