Abbot Vitalis Of Savigny Abbot Godfrey Of Savigny Peter Of Avranches And Blessed Hamo

Author : Hugh Feiss,Maureen M. O'Brien,Ronald Pepin,Ronald E. Pepin
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879072308

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Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo by Hugh Feiss,Maureen M. O'Brien,Ronald Pepin,Ronald E. Pepin Pdf

This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries under his successor Godfrey (1122-1138). In 1147, the entire congregation joined the Cistercian Order. Around 1172, two monks of Savigny, Peter of Avranches and Hamo, friends but very different personalities, died. Their stories were told in two further vitae. The vitae of these four men exemplify the variety of people and movements found in the monastic ferment of the twelfth century.

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879074999

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The World of Medieval Monasticism by Gert Melville Pdf

This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe’s move toward modernity.

Author : William (of Andres, Abbot)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813229997

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The Chronicle of Andres by William (of Andres, Abbot) Pdf

Translated with Notes and Commentary by Leah Shopkow In 1220 Abbot William of Andres, a monastery halfway between Calais and Saint-Omer on the busy road from London to Paris, sat down to write an ambitious cartulary-chronicle for his monastery. Although his work was unfinished at his death, William’s account is an unpolished gem of medieval historical writing. The Chronicle of Andres details the history of his monastery from its foundation in the late eleventh century through the early part of 1234. Early in the thirteenth century, the monks decided to sue for their freedom and appointed William as their protector. His travels took him on a 4000 km, four-year journey, during which he was befriended by Innocent III, among others, and where he learned to negotiate the labyrinthine system of the ecclesiastical courts. Upon winning his case, he was elected abbot on his return to Andres and enjoyed a flourishing career thereafter. A decade after his victory, William decided to put the history of the monastery on a firm footing. This text not only offers insight into the practice of medieval canon law (from the perspective of a well-informed man with legal training), but also ecclesiastical policies, the dynamics of life within a monastery, ethnicity and linguistic diversity, and rural life. It is comparable in its frankness to Jocelin of Brakelord’s Chronicle of Bury. Because William drew on the historiographic tradition of the Southern Low Countries, his text also offers some insights into this subject, thus composing a broad picture of the medieval European monastic world.

Author : Leah Shopkow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487538231

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The Saint and the Count by Leah Shopkow Pdf

While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.

Author : Hugh B. Feiss,Ronald Pepin,Maureen M. O'Brien
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879071752

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A Benedictine Reader by Hugh B. Feiss,Ronald Pepin,Maureen M. O'Brien Pdf

A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general introduction summarizes the main ideas and practices that are present in the Rule of Saint Benedict and in the first thousand years of Benedictine monasticism while suggesting questions that a reader might bring to the texts.

Author : Caesarius of Heisterbach
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780879072148

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The Dialogue on Miracles by Caesarius of Heisterbach Pdf

Caesarius was a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Heisterbach in Germany, where he served as Master of novices. For their instruction and edification, he composed his lengthy Dialogue on Miracles in twelve sections between 1219 and 1223. The many surviving manuscripts of this and other works by Caesarius attest to his stature in the history of Cistercian letters. This volume contains sections one through six of Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles, the first complete translation into English of an influential representation of exempla literature from the Middle Ages. Caesarius’s stories provide a splendid index to monastic life, religious practices, and daily life in a tumultuous time.

Author : Great Britain. Exchequer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N12207005

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Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniæ sub regibus Angliæ by Great Britain. Exchequer Pdf

Author : James Robinson Planché
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090366477

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The Conqueror and His Companions by James Robinson Planché Pdf

Personal and domestic history of William the Conqueror, &c.

Author : Andrew Abram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833864

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Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages by Andrew Abram Pdf

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its fifteen chapters assess diverse aspects of monastic history, focusing on the wide range of contacts which existed between religious communities and the laity in the later medieval British Isles, covering a range of different religious orders and houses. This period has often been considered to represent a general decline of the regular life; but on the contrary, the essays here demonstrate that there remained a rich monastic culture which, although different from that of earlier centuries, remained vibrant. CONTRIBUTORS: KAREN STOBER, JULIE KERR, EMILIA JAMROZIAK, MARTIN HEALE, COLMAN O CLABAIGH, ANDREW ABRAM, MICHAEL HICKS, JANET BURTON, KIMM PERKINS-CURRAN, JAMES CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, JENS ROHRKASTEN, SHEILA SWEETINBURGH, NICHOLAS ORME, CLAIRE CROSS

Author : Daniel Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521571722

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The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries by Daniel Power Pdf

The twelfth-century borderlands of the duchy of Normandy formed the cockpit for dynastic rivalries between the kings of England and France. This 2004 book examines how the political divisions between Normandy and its neighbours shaped the communities of the Norman frontier. It traces the region's history from the conquest of Normandy in 1106 by Henry I of England, to the duchy's annexation in 1204 by the king of France, Philip Augustus, and its incorporation into the Capetian kingdom. It explores the impact of the frontier upon princely and ecclesiastical power structures, customary laws, and noble strategies such as marriage, patronage and suretyship. Particular attention is paid to the lesser aristocracy as well as the better known magnates, and an extended appendix reconstructs the genealogies of thirty-three prominent frontier lineages. The book sheds light upon the twelfth-century French aristocracy, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval political frontiers.

Author : Thomas Noble,John Van Engen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268206120

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European Transformations by Thomas Noble,John Van Engen Pdf

The "long twelfth century"--1050 to 1215--embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became "Europe." Historians have used the terms "renaissance,""reformation,"and "revolution" to account for the dynamism of intellectual, religious, and structural renewal manifest across schools, monasteries, courts, and churches. Complicating the story, more recent historical work has highlighted manifestations of social crisis and oppression. In European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, nineteen accomplished medievalists examine this pivotal era under the rubric of "transformation": a time of epoch-making change both good and ill, a release of social and cultural energies that proved innovative and yet continuous with the past. Their collective reappraisal, although acknowledging insights gained from over a century of scholarship, fruitfully adjusts the questions and alters the accents. In addition to covering such standard regions as England and France, and such standard topics as feudalism and investiture, the contributors also address Scandinavia, Iberia, and Eastern Europe, women's roles in medieval society, Jewish and Muslim communities, law and politics, and the complexities of urban and rural situations. With their diverse and challenging contributions, the authors offer a new point of departure for students and scholars attempting to grasp the dynamic puzzle of twelfth-century Europe.

Author : Frederick Lewis Weis
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0806313676

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Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis Pdf

Author : Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107042100

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West: Volume 2 by Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin Pdf

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Cistercian Studies
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000388004

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The Monastic Journey by Thomas Merton Pdf

Written during the last decade of Merton's life, these articles reflect his mature thought on monastic life in community and in solitude. Appealing to the monastic dimension in all of us, his reflections have meaning for those living outside as well as inside monastery walls, fellow travelers on the same journey he took, aware of the fragility and imperfections, as well as the great potential for growth and love, within each human person.

Author : David Bates
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826443090

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England and Normandy in the Middle Ages by David Bates Pdf

The histories of England and of Normandy in the middle ages were inextricably linked. England and Normandy in the Middle Ages provides a synoptic view by leading scholars of not only political and military but also of ecclesiastical and cultural links. Taken together these essays provide an up-to-date scholarly account of relations between England and its immediate neighbour.