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Accounting at Durham Cathedral Priory

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137479785

ISBN: 978-1-349-55282-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Jan 18, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 1 –8

[The two extracts above are taken from the guide to the monastic life outlined by St. Benedict in his Rule, written in the first half of the sixth century, which became a keystone of monastic practice in the medieval West. Both quotations put accountability at the heart of the roles of the abbot...
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Chapter 2Durham Cathedral Priory 1083–1539

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 9 –46

[The city of Durham is dominated by the twin monuments of its medieval cathedral and episcopal castle-palace. Facing each other across the open space of Palace Green, they crown the summit of a narrow-mouthed peninsular which is tightly bound by a loop of the River Wear. Long recognized as a...
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Chapter 3Economic, Bureaucratic and Religious Developments

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 47 –75

[Durham Cathedral Priory flourished, struggled and survived as a Benedictine monastic house for nearly half a millennium from the end of the eleventh century to almost the middle of the sixteenth century a period which witnessed huge changes in political structures and social relations, in...
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Chapter 4The Corpus of Accounting Material

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 76 –116

[The medieval accounting materials which survive from Durham Cathedral Priory constitute one of the largest collections from any medieval institution outside royal government. The total number of extant items within the medieval archive, including accounting and non-accounting material, has been...
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Chapter 5Rentals, Compoti, Status, and Other Documentary Forms

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 117 –156

[This chapter examines the forms of the accounting records to elucidate their function and to consider their role within a broader system of financial control. After a short review of the physical characteristics of the accounting material, the various forms of accounting record are considered...
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Chapter 6Debtors, Creditors and Financial Management

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 157 –182

[Durham Cathedral Priory was ranked amongst the wealthier Benedictine houses of England. McKisack for example, quoted annual receipts of over £3,000 in the Durham bursar’s rolls alone for 1293, 1295 and 1297.1 At first sight it might seem that such substantial levels of income would preclude any...
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Chapter 7Accounting as a Management Tool

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 183 –210

[The quotation above is taken from the Gospel of Luke, and in it Christ asks who would begin to build a tower without first ensuring he had resources adequate to complete it: an early allusion to the process of budgeting. Chapters 4 and 5 have concentrated on the financial reporting and...
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Chapter 8External Monitoring and Conclusions

Dobie, Alisdair

Pages: 211 –224

[The quotation below is taken from the final lines of the late fifteenth century play Everyman. It illustrates the prominence of accounting in the popular mind as the means by which man’s conduct and actions were justified or condemned.]

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