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The article discusses the relation of gastronomy to medicine in 12th-century England in relation to a collection of recipes found in a manuscript from that period. Topics include food attitudes in medicine at the time, the notion of salsamenta as recipes involving salted foods, and the food culture of the Benedictine Priory at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England.

The earliest-known employment of Thomas Tallis was as ioculator organorum (organ-player) of the Benedictine monastery of Dover Priory, 1530-31. The account that records his engagement there discloses also some indication of the musical resources, in terms of an organ and five or six singingboys, that were placed at his disposal in this appointment, while study of the contracts of employment of other musicians holding similar posts elsewhere suggests some appreciation of the duties expected of him. This position emerges as relatively humble, and appears to have been best suited to discharge by some talented but still youthful musician at the very start of his adult career. Meanwhile, the appearance of his antiphon Salve intemerata Dei mater in London, British Library, Ms. Harley 1709 shows that even before his appointment to Dover Tallis was already a composer of some considerable accomplishment. The association of Dover Priory with the chapel of the household of its then patron, William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, may suggest both a locale for Tallis's earliest training as a youth, and an identification for the source of the patronage which secured him this employment at Dover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discussing the dating of the work of English monk and poet Robert Manning. He mentions Manning's tenure at Sempringham Priory in England, the reference to his priorship in the introduction to his poem "Handling Sin," and the records noting the actual priors during the time period.

We extend the discontinuous Galerkin framework to a linear second-order elliptic problem on a compact smooth connected and oriented surface in ℝ3. An interior penalty (IP) method is introduced on a discrete surface and we derive a priori error estimates by relating the latter to the original surface via the lift introduced in Dziuk (1988). The estimates suggest that the geometric error terms arising from the surface discretization do not affect the overall convergence rate of the IP method when using linear ansatz functions. This is then verified numerically for a number of test problems. An intricate issue is the approximation of the surface conormal required in the IP formulation, choices of which are investigated numerically. Furthermore, we present a generic implementation of test problems on surfaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses poet William Wordsworth's 1838 visit to antiquarian James Raine in Finchale Priory, Durham, England. The author argues that this visit demonstrates Wordsworth's interest in monastic life and explains how Wordsworth traveled through Durham with his friend Isabella Fenwick. Also detailed is Fenwick's role in securing the marriage of Wordsworth's daughter, Dora Wordsworth, to Catholic poet Edward Quillinan by organizing the meeting between Wordsworth and Raine. Raine's association with historian Robert Surtees is also explained.

We present some improvements of a gravity inversion method to determine the geometry of the anomalous bodies for priori density contrasts. The 3-D method is based on an exploratory process applied, not for the global model, but for the steps of a growth approach. The (positive and/or negative) anomalous structure is described by successive aggregation of cells, while its corresponding gravity field remains nearly proportional to the observed one. Moreover, a simple (e.g. linear) regional trend can be simultaneously adjusted. The corresponding program is applied to new gravity data on the volcanic island of Faial (Azores archipelago). The inversion approach shows a subsurface anomalous structure for the island, the main feature being an elongated high-density body. The body is interpreted as a compact sheeted dyke swarm, emplaced along Faial-Pico Fracture Zone, a leaky transform structure that forms the current boundary between Eurasian and African plates in the Azores area. The new results in this paper are (1) a Bouguer gravity anomaly map, (2) several improvements in the inversion process (robust process, optimal balance fitness/model magnitude), (3) a new gravimetric method for estimating the mean terrain density, (4) a 3-D model for subsurface mass anomalies in Faial and (5) some interpretative conclusions about a main intrusive complex detected under the island as a wall-like structure extending from a depth of 0.5 to 6 km b.s.l., with a N100°E trend and corresponding to an early fissural volcanic episode controlled by the regional tectonics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the dependencies of priories and closure of monasteries in England in the late medieval period. Information on the annexation of several independent monasteries to other religious houses; Dissolution of Sandleford Priory in favor of St. George's Chapel in Windsor; Details of the appropriation of Goldliff Priory by Tewkesbury.

Much remains obscure about the many small monasteries of late medieval England, and it is generally thought that they made little contribution to the religious life of the country. The large collection of accounts surviving from St. Leonard's priory, Norwich (a daughter house of the cathedral priory), however, presents an interesting picture of a priory sustained almost entirely by offerings to its image of St. Leonard. This cult continued to attract broad support throughout the later middle ages, with its income reaching a peak at over forty pounds per year in the mid fifteenth century. Almost the entirety of this windfall was set aside for a systematic renovation of the monastery, which can be chronicled in some detail. Although the cult was on the wane by 1500, the importance of the priory for the popular religion of the region emerges clearly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assesses how King Stephen of England administered the royal forests during the anarchy. Scandalous events of Stephen's reign; Clarification of the circumstances in which Ickleton Priory was established and in suggesting that King Stephen may have been one of the prime movers behind the foundation.