Publication Date
Spring 1979
Abstract
Let us consider the accounting problems for an abbey, a monastery, one of the prominent social institutions of the middle ages, a center for many activities: religious, social, cultural and economic. More specifically, let us center on the activities of a relatively large abbey near the coast of southern England, Beaulieu Abbey in the year 1269. The activities of this abbey would not seem strange to some of our modern rancher-oilman-financier entrepreneurs of South Texas. The modern rancher-farmer may have, in addition to his agricultural activities, some oil and/or gas interests, some financial interest in the local bank, etc. Most of these activities, and more were familiar to the monks governing a large medieval abbey.
Recommended Citation
Malecek, George F.
(1979)
"Accounting in an English medieval abbey,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol2/iss1/1