ABBREVIATIONS
FROM THE time this task was conceived as a three-volume work,
it was planned to reduce to a minimum extensive citation and
abbreviation in the footnotes, and to do so by integrating note
citations with the annotated Bibliography at the end of Volume III.
Text footnote citation is made in a modified scientific style. Most
single-author references are given by author surname, year of publication,
volume number if applicable, and page citations. With a few
exceptions, full bibliographical information can be found only in
the Bibliography.
Citations to primary sources, chiefly the patristic writings and the
great encyclopedias, are given by abbreviated general title (see list
below); volumes in these works are given in the notes with abbreviated
titles but in sufficient detail to make their identities virtually
self-evident. Simple references to authors of standard works, even
without the Bibliography, will pose little problem to many readers.
We realize that the method has the drawback of not being fully
useful at once. The need to balance text, notes, captioning, and
illustrations on these pages favored conciseness wherever possible.
Internal cross references are by volume and page number of this
work, with volume number omitted for the book in hand. Abbreviations
in the inscriptions of the Plan are discussed in Volume III,
introduction to Appendix I.
Cons. Mon.
Consuetudines Monasticae, Bruno Albers, ed., 5 vols., Stuttgart and
Vienna, 1900-1912.
Corps. Cons. Mon.
Corpus Consuetudinum Monasticarum, Kassius Hallinger, ed., 5 vols.,
Sieburg, 1963-1968. Published under the auspices of the Pontifical
Institute of St. Anselm.
DHGE
Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclesiastiques, A. Baudrillart
et al., eds., 13 vols., Paris, 1912-.
Migne, Patr. Lat.
Patrologiae cursus completus . . . (Series Latina), Jacques Paul
Migne, ed., 221 vols., Paris, 1844-1902.
Mon. Germ. Hist.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Diplomata regum Germaniae ex
stirpe Karolinorum, 4 vols., Berlin, 1934-1960.
VHC
Victoria History of the Counties of England (various titles, authors,
several publishers; from 1953 on published by Oxford University
Press for the Institute of Historical Research, University of
London).
18 Numerals in black squares, associated with illustrations of portions
of the Plan, correspond to numbers in the Index of the Plan, pp.
xxvi-xxvii following, and to the Catalogue of Inscriptions of the
Plan (Appendix I, Volume III).