Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	832
Title	Money Makes the (Monastic) World Go Round: Financial Use and Abuse of Monasteries and Their Benefactors in Medieval Europe
Date/Time	Tuesday 4 July 2017: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Project / Monastic Wales Project
Organiser	Claude Lucette Evans, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Moderator/Chair	Claude Lucette Evans, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Paper 832-a	The Costs of Overspending and Exactions in 13th-Century Brittany: The Cases of Henri d'Avaugour and Geffroy Tournemine (Language: English) Kenneth Paul Evans, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Ontario Index Terms: Local History; Religious Life; Social History
Paper 832-b	Cluniac Monks and Jewish Moneylenders in 13th-Century Catalonia (Language: English) Karen Stöber, Departament d'Història, Universitat de Lleida Index Terms: Local History; Monasticism; Religious Life; Social History
Paper 832-c	Making Ends Meet (or Not): Financial Problems at Welsh Cistercian Monasteries in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Janet Burton, Institute of Humanities & Education, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Index Terms: Local History; Monasticism; Religious Life; Social History
Abstract	This session addresses some of the financial crises faced by religious houses and their benefactors in medieval Europe. Paper -a looks at the borrowing habits of two noblemen in 13th-century Brittany, focussing on their borrowing a large amount of money notably from at least one individual, Guillaume Le Borgne - and at least one religious institution, the Premonstratensian abbey of Beauport. Paper -b examines the borrowing habits of a 13th-century Catalan Cluniac monastery whose prior was a frequent customer of the local Jewish money-lenders. And paper -c considers some of the methods employed by Welsh Cistercians to overcome their financial problems.