The Ghostly Monk of Byland Abbey

Record summary

A collection of Latin ghost stories written by a monk of Byland Abbey includes accounts of revenants, apparitions, and disturbances associated with local communities and religious settings. The stories are among the best-known medieval English examples of recorded ghost narratives and can be compared for their treatment of testimony, clerical authority, burial, and the boundary between pastoral exemplum and report. The manuscript is identifiable, but individual locations and episodes are not always described with modern geographic precision, and the texts have been edited and translated differently.