The Book of St. Gilbert

This is the first full edition of the canonization dossier of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, who died in 1189 and was canonized in 1202. It is a document of exceptional interest for the history of the canonization process in Rome, for the history of the one English religious Order of the Middle Ages, the Order of Sempringham, and for the biography of the founder himself, St. Gilbert. The order was founded to be primarily an Order of women, was confined to England, and so disappeared at the Reformation.

Raymonde Foreville is Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Rennes and Caen, and Director of Research attached to the Institut de Recherches et de Textes, Paris. Gillian Keir is a part-time Lecturer in History at the Westfield College, University of London.