Life in a Medieval College: The Story of the Vicars-Choral of York Minister by Frederick Harrison (RB256)

Published 1952: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 349 very clean and bright pages, previous owners signature on the first free page. Covers slightly rubbed with time on the spine edge. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed with time and chipped along the edges consistent with age but remains intact. (RB256)

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Though based almost entirely on records written from the middle of the thirteenth century -- some of them even earlier -- to the middle of the nineteenth century, this book is about the life lived, for seven centuries and more, in and about not only the cathedral and metropolitical church of St. Peter at York but also eight other cathedral churches from the Norman Conquest onwards. Describes the lives of monks, who in accordance with the rule of St. Benedict and colleges/cathedrals divided between the regular and the secular clergy. Emphasis on the sub-chanter and vicars-choral of York from the year 1252 to the year 1936. [Google Books]