Medieval Monasticism

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : C.H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877318

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Medieval Monasticism by C.H. Lawrence Pdf

Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 058249186X

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Medieval Monasticism by Clifford Hugh Lawrence Pdf

Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

Author : Marilyn Dunn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1405106417

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The Emergence of Monasticism by Marilyn Dunn Pdf

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism. Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

Author : Giles Constable
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000949568

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Medieval Monasticism by Giles Constable Pdf

Collected Studies CS1064 This collection of Giles Constable's key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history provides nothing less than a comprehensive overview of research in the field. The book provides an insight into monastic life in the Middle Ages - from Germany to Normandy and from England to Sicily.

Author : Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Bruce L. Venarde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717246

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Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society by Bruce L. Venarde Pdf

In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. To chart the expansion of nunneries in France and England during the central Middle Ages, he presents statistics and narratives to describe growth in broad historical contexts, with special attention to social and economic change. Venarde explains that in the years 1000–1300 the number of nunneries within Europe grew tenfold. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, religious institutions for women developed in a variety of ways, mostly outside the self-conscious reform movements that have been the traditional focus of monastic history. Not reforming monks but wandering preachers, bishops, and the women and men of local petty aristocracies made possible the foundation of new nunneries. In times of increased agrarian wealth, decentralization of power, and a shortage of potential spouses, many women decided to become nuns and proved especially adept at combining spiritual search with practical acumen. This era of expansion came to an end in the thirteenth century when forces of regulation and new economic realities reduced radically the number of new nunneries. Venarde argues that the factors encouraging and inhibiting monastic foundations for men and women were much more similar than scholars have previously assumed.

Author : Marilyn Dunn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470795293

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The Emergence of Monasticism by Marilyn Dunn Pdf

The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism. Gives particular attention to the contribution of women to ascetic and monastic life.

Author : Noreen Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781349007059

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Cluniac Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages by Noreen Hunt Pdf

Author : Edel Bhreathnach,Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton,Keith Smith
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Convents
ISBN : 250356979X

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Monastic Europe by Edel Bhreathnach,Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton,Keith Smith Pdf

Monasticism became part of Europe from the early period of Christianity on the continent and developed into a powerful institution that had an effect on the greater church, on wider society, and on the landscape. Monastic communities were as diverse as the societies in which they lived, following a variety of rules, building monasteries influenced by common ideals and yet diverse in their regionalism, and contributing to the economic and spiritual well-being inside and outside their precincts. This interdisciplinary volume presents the diversity of medieval European monasticism with a particular emphasis on its impact on its immediate environs. Geographically it covers from the far west in Ireland, Scotland and Wales through Scandinavia, south to the Iberian Peninsula, and onto the continent to the east in Romania. Drawing on archaeological, art and architectural, textual and topographical evidence, the contributors explore how monastic communities were formed, how they created a landscape of monasticism, how they wove their identities with those around them, and how they interacted with all levels of society to leave a lasting imprint on European towns and rural landscapes.

Author : Carolyn Muessig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9004108831

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Medieval Monastic Preaching by Carolyn Muessig Pdf

This book demonstrates that monastic preaching was a diverse activity which included preaching by monks, nuns and heretics. The study offers a preliminary step in understanding how preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.

Author : Albrecht Diem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 250358960X

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The Pursuit of Salvation by Albrecht Diem Pdf

The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone's Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to pursue eternal salvation. The book provides a critical edition and translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines and a roadmap for such a new history revolving around various aspects of monastic discipline, such as the agency of the community, the role of enclosure, authority and obedience, space and boundaries, confession and penance, sleep and silence, excommunication and expulsion.

Author : Katherine Allen Smith,Katherine Katherine Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781843838678

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War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture by Katherine Allen Smith,Katherine Katherine Smith Pdf

The monastic life, traditionally considered as an area of withdrawal from the world, is here shown to be shaped by metaphors of war, and to be actively engaged with battle in the world outside.

Author : Anna Lisa Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030503

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Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 by Anna Lisa Taylor Pdf

This is the first book to focus on Latin epic verse saints' lives in their medieval historical contexts. Anna Taylor examines how these works promoted bonds of friendship and expressed rivalries among writers, monasteries, saints, earthly patrons, teachers, and students in Western Europe in the central middle ages. Using philological, codicological, and microhistorical approaches, Professor Taylor reveals new insights that will reshape our understanding of monasticism, patronage, and education. These texts give historians an unprecedented glimpse inside the early medieval classroom, provide a nuanced view of the complicated synthesis of the Christian and Classical heritages, and show the cultural importance and varied functions of poetic composition in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries.

Author : Julie Kerr,Emilia Jamroziak,Karen Stöber
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786833198

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Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles by Julie Kerr,Emilia Jamroziak,Karen Stöber Pdf

This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.