Monasteries And Society In The British Isles In The Later Middle Ages

Author : Andrew Abram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Julie Kerr,Emilia Jamroziak,Karen Stöber
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

Author : Anne Müller,Karen Stöber
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9783825817589

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Self-representation of Medieval Religious Communities by Anne Müller,Karen Stöber Pdf

This book explores the medieval monastery as symbolic space (locus symbolicus) and looks at forms of self-representation in medieval monastic life. Papers focus on both the transitory nature of organised religious life, which is based on symbols, and the separate identities religious communities developed by using their own specific forms of ritual and symbolisation. Case studies treat the British Isles and the broader European context. Among the key issues explored here are rituals in internal organisation, the symbolic use of space, architecture and art, symbolism in social interactions, and symbolic constructions of the past.

Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Manchester Medieval Sources
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080823571

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Monasticism in Late Medieval England, C.1300-1535 by Martin Heale Pdf

"Monasticism in Late Medieval England, c.1300-1535 provides the first collection of translated sources on this subject. The volume covers both male and female houses of all orders and sizes, and offers a range of new perspectives on the character and reputation of English monasteries in the later middle ages. The documents, many translated into English for the first time, illuminate every facet of monastic life in late medieval England. The first section surveys the internal affairs of English monasteries, including recruitment, the monastic economy, standards of observance and learning. The second part looks at the relations between monasteries and the world, exploring the monastic contribution to late medieval religion and society and lay attitudes towards monks and nuns in the years leading up to the Dissolution."--Publisher description.

Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833212

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The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism by James G. Clark Pdf

Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.

Author : Barbara Harvey
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191591730

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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 : The Monastic Experience by Barbara Harvey Pdf

This fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities is also a broad exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages, by one of its most distinguished historians. - ;This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monastic communities. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century, by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their dependants, and their benefactors. She examines the charitable practices of the monks, their food and drink, their illnesses and their deaths, the number and conditions of employment of their servants, and their controversial practice of granting corrodies (pensions made up in large measure of benefits in kind). All these topics Miss Harvey considers in the context both of religious institutions in general, and of the secular world. Full of colour and interest, Living and Dying in England is an original and highly readable contribution to medieval history, and that of the early sixteenth century. - ;By one of the greatest authorities on the subject -

Author : Mark Dilworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002601907

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Scottish Monasteries in the Late Middle Ages by Mark Dilworth Pdf

Author : Joe Chick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : 9781783277568

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Urban Society and Monastic Lordship in Reading, 1350-1600 by Joe Chick Pdf

Interrogates the standard view of turbulent and violent town-abbey relations through a combination of traditional and new research techniques.

Author : Frances Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107661752

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Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450 by Frances Andrews Pdf

Why, when so driven by the impetus for autonomy, did the city elites of thirteenth-century Italy turn to men bound to religious orders whose purpose and reach stretched far beyond the boundaries of their often disputed territories? Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c.1200–c.1450 brings together a team of international contributors to provide the first comparative response to this pivotal question. Presenting a series of urban cases and contexts, the book explores the secular-religious boundaries of the period and evaluates the role of the clergy in the administration and government of Italy's city-states. With an extensive introduction and epilogue, it exposes for consideration the beginnings of the phenomenon, the varying responses of churchmen, the reasons why practices changed and how politics and religious identity relate to each other. This important new study has significant implications for our understanding of power, negotiation, bureaucracy and religious identity.

Author : Janet E. Burton,Julie Kerr
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843836674

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The Cistercians in the Middle Ages by Janet E. Burton,Julie Kerr Pdf

The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the 11th and 12th centuries. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.

Author : Sheila Sweetinburgh
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851155845

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Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 by Sheila Sweetinburgh Pdf

A comprehensive investigation into Kent in the later middle ages, from its agriculture to religious houses, from ship-building to the parish church.

Author : Krista Kodres,Anu Mänd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443864282

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Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe by Krista Kodres,Anu Mänd Pdf

This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character. The book approaches ‘ritual’ as an action which is discussed under the general umbrella term “performative practice”, and is characterised by a synthesis between the repetitive and the extraordinary that carries an intense symbolic meaning and is emotionally charged. Images, spaces and rituals were closely interconnected in both the religious and the secular spheres, and played a relevant role in the symbolic communication of the time. The essays in this volume are devoted to a complex study of these phenomena in Northern and Central Europe, including regions which, due to linguistic or cultural barriers, have thus far received comparatively little attention in Anglo-American scholarship, including Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltic states.

Author : Kimm Curran,Janet Burton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837650293

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Medieval Women Religious, C. 800-C. 1500 by Kimm Curran,Janet Burton Pdf

A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister. Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of monastic and religious orders, within the world as vowesses, or between the two as anchorites. Via a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology, literature, and the visual arts, the essays in this volume challenge received scholarly narratives and re-examine the roles of women religious: their authority and agency within their own communities and the wider world; their learning and literacy; place in the landscape; and visual culture. Overall, they highlight the impact of women on the world around them, the significance of their presence in communities, and the experiences and legacies they left behind.

Author : David J. Falls
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087540

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Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture by David J. Falls Pdf

Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.

Author : Hugh M. Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191007019

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The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216 by Hugh M. Thomas Pdf

The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the central Middle Ages. The secular clergy got their title from the Latin word for world, saeculum, and secular clerics kept the Church running in the world beyond the cloister wall, with responsibility for the bulk of pastoral care and ecclesiastical administration. This gave them enormous religious influence, although they were considered too worldly by many contemporary moralists - trying, for instance, to oppose the elimination of clerical marriage and concubinage. Although their worldliness created many tensions, it also gave the secular clergy much worldly influence. Contemporaries treated elite secular clerics as equivalent to knights, and some were as wealthy as minor barons. Secular clerics had a huge role in the rise of royal bureaucracy, one of the key historical developments of the period. They were instrumental to the intellectual and cultural flowering of the twelfth century, the rise of the schools, the creation of the book trade, and the invention of universities. They performed music, produced literature in a variety of genres and languages, and patronized art and architecture. Indeed, this volume argues that they contributed more than any other group to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Yet the secular clergy as a group have received almost no attention from scholars, unlike monks, nuns, or secular nobles. In The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216, Hugh Thomas aims to correct this deficiency through a major study of the secular clergy below the level of bishop in England from 1066 to 1216.