1. The standard work for the architectural history of the cathedral is still R. Willis,
The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral (London: Longman & Co.,
1845). More recently, for the Anglo-Saxon church: Bede, Historical Works, trans. J.E.
King (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930) vol. I; Nicholas Brooks, The Early
History of Canterbury Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (Leicester: Leicester University Press,
1984); Richard Gem, "The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral Church at Canterbury: a further
Contribution," in Archaeological Journal CXXVII (1970) 196-201; H. M. Taylor, "The
Anglo-Saxon Cathedral Church at Canterbury," in Archaeological Journal CXXVI (1969)
101-130; and Francis Woodman, The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981). For the definitive edition of Eadmer's Christ Church
remarks, see A. Willmart, "'Opuscula: Eadmeri Cantuarensis cantoris nova: opuscula de
sanctorum veneratione et obsecratione," in Revue des Sciences Religieuses XV (1935)
184-219, 354-379. For Lanfranc's church, in addition to Willis and Woodman, see first of all
Gervase of Canterbury, "Incipit tractatus de combustione at reparatione Cantuariensis ecclesiae,"
in Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury (Rolls Series, 1879) vol. 73, i, 3-29; newer
studies include Richard Gem, "The Significance of the 11th-century Rebuilding of Christ Church
and St. Augustine's Canterbury," in Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before
1220 (BAA, 1982) 1-19; David Knowles, ed., The Monastic Constitutions of
Lanfranc (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1951); H. A. Strik, "Remains of the
Lanfranc Building in the Great Central Tower and the Northwest Choir/Transept Area," in
Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220 (BAA, 1982) 20-26. For
Anselm's choir, in addition to Gervase, Willis and Woodman, see Eric Fernie, "St Anselm's
Crypt" in Medieval Art and Architecture at Canterbury before 1220 (BAA, 1982) 27-38.
2. Gervase, 3-29; Wilmart, 184-219, 354-379; translations in Taylor, 1-30 and in Willis,
1-62. Unless stated otherwise, the translations in this article are the author's.
3. Bede, 175-6; Taylor, 102; Brooks, 50.
4. Taylor, 101-30; Brooks, 9, 38, 41-2.
5. Bede, 157.
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6. Bede, 157.
7. Willmart, 365-6; translated in Willis, 1-3 and Taylor, 105-6.
8. Taylor, 105.
9. Gervase, 9-12; Willis, 63-96; Taylor, 116-7; Strik, 20-26; Gem, 1982, 1-19.
10. Gervase, 12,
11. Gem, 1982, 2; Knowles, 12, 79, 137, 140.
12. Gervase, 9-11.
13. Gem, 1982, 13.
14. Gervase, 10, Gem, 1982, 3.
15. Gervase, 1.
16. Knowles, 41.
17. Gervase, 3-7 and 12-29; Willis, 37-48; Fernie, 27-38.
18. Gervase, 13-16; J. Wickham Legg and W. H. St. John Hope, Inventories of
Christ Church Canterbury (Westminster: Archibald Constable & Company, 1902) 36,
80.
19. Willis, 38-9
20. Gervase, 16; Willis, 38-9.
21. Gervase, 21.
22. Gervase, 15.
23. Legg and Hope, 88-9
24. Gervase, 24.
25. Bernard McGinn, "Iter Sancti Sepulchri: The Piety of the First Crusaders," in
Essays on Medieval Civilization: the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, ed. Bede
Karl Lackner and Kenneth Roy Philip (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978) 33-70.
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26. Gervase, 23.
27. Gervase, 21.
28. Legg and Hope, 125.
29. Legg and Hope, 134.
30. Legg and Hope, 39.
31. Legg and Hope, 33-43, 80-94.
32. For further reading on pilgrimage as process, see Victor Turner's studies: The
Ritual Process Structure and Anti-Structure (New York: Aldine, 1969), Image and
Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978), and
Process, Performance and Pilgrimage (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Co., 1979).
33. The monk Benedict, in Materials for the History of Thomas Becket Archbishop
of Canterbury, ed. James Craigie Robertson (Rolls Series, 1875) vol. 67, i, 43 and iv, 234.
