Monastic Europe

Author : Edel Bhreathnach,Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton,Keith Smith
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Ines Angeli Murzaku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317391043

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Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics by Ines Angeli Murzaku Pdf

This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism’s continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural and national identity forming determinant in the region.

Author : C.H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877301

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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 : Tore Nyberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351761369

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Monasticism in North-Western Europe, 800–1200 by Tore Nyberg Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: This is a full-scale integrated synthesis of the origins, spread and effects of monasticism in Scandinavia, and along the shores of the Baltic and the North Sea. Beginning with a review of the geography and communications by land and, especially, by sea, of the region, the author goes on to describe early monasticism among the Frisians ,Saxons and the Danes, then in Norway and Sweden, Saxony, Slesvig and Ribe, and finally Pomerania and the southern and eastern Baltic littoral. Throughout the book he stresses the place of abbeys and convents within their local surroundings, as centres of conversion, recruitment and redistribution of wealth. He traces the intellectual, literary and liturgical connections between monastic centres and neighbouring cathedral towns and royal strongholds, and the means by which orders or congregations maintained discipline from the centre. He also describes the leaders who emerged from convent, abbey or congregation to command local and regional political and cultural life, and the ways in which monastic centres influenced popular devotion.

Author : Edel Bhreathnach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 250357906X

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Monastic Europe by Edel Bhreathnach Pdf

Author : P. J. A. N. Rietbergen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780415172301

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Europe by P. J. A. N. Rietbergen Pdf

This major contribution to the idea of Europe sweeps the continent from its Celtic and German origins through the influence of the Greeks and Romans to the fruitful--and sometimes bloody--contacts with other cultures. Peter Rietbergen portrays Europe's history as a series of four grand phases of continuity and change set in the context of political, social and economic developments. These phases are new forms of: surviving; believing; looking at man and the world; and consumption and communication. Rietbergen's descriptions are supported by a selection of illuminating excerpts such as: Chaucer's description of London in 1378; Michelangelo on Italian art; and popular music lyrics of Iron Maiden and Sting.

Author : Emilia Jamroziak,Karen Stöber
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Akkulturation
ISBN : 2503545351

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Monasteries on the Borders of Medieval Europe by Emilia Jamroziak,Karen Stöber Pdf

As a historical and cultural phenomenon, monasticism always had a close connection with frontiers. The earliest monasteries were believed to be founded in wildernesses and deserts, thus existing beyond society and the inhabited world in general. As intercessors praying for their patrons and benefactors, monastic communities also existed on the border between the earthly and the spiritual worlds. In medieval Europe, however, the frontier nature of monasticism had specific manifestations in addition to the founding myths of monastic wilderness. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the expansion of Latin Europe in East-Central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, and into the Holy Land and Greece opened possibilities for extending monastic networks and establishing new houses. One of the most important parts of this process was the interaction between these new religious communities and the social world around them-an interaction that was characterised by various shades of hostility, cooperation, and adaptation to the local social and cultural framework. This is the first collection to consider the phenomenon of monastic frontiers in a cross-disciplinary manner. The book's ten chapters explore the role of monasteries in maintaining political and cultural borders, in breaking and sustaining linguistic boundaries in late medieval Europe, as well as in building and stabilizing Latin Christian cultural identities on the northern and southern frontiers of Europe. Using a wide range of textual, archaeological, and material evidence, an international group of authors examines the expansion of monastic and mendicant networks in Scandinavia, Iberia, East-Central Europe, the British Isles, northern France, the Balkans, and Frankish Greece.

Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Cordula van Wyhe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351936675

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Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe by Cordula van Wyhe Pdf

This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings essential to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of female spirituality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Utilising a wide range of archival material, encompassing art, architecture, writings and music commissioned or produced by nuns, the volume's main emphasis is on the limitations and potentials created by the boundaries of the convent. Each chapter explores how the personal and national circumstances in which the women lived affected the formation of their spirituality and the assertion of their social and political authority. Consisting of four sections each dealing with different parts of Europe and discussing issues of spiritual and social identity such as 'Femininity and Sanctity', 'Convent Theatre and Music-Making', 'Spiritual Directorship' and 'Community and Conflict', this compelling collection offers a significant addition to a thriving new field of study.

Author : Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303652276X

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Medieval Monasticism in Northern Europe by Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir Pdf

While the Christian monastic tradition and its development on the mainland of Europe has been extensively studied by scholars, medieval monasticism in Northern Europe has gained considerably less attention. However, interest in the topic has grown steadily, as can be observed from the varied research that has taken place during the last decades. This growing interest can partly be explained by the current multidisciplinary approaches in academic research as well as the emergence of studies on material culture and its entwinement with archival material during the last decades of the twentieth century. It may also be further explained by an increased awareness of how North-European historiography, including medieval monastic studies, has since the nineteenth century been shaped by Protestant views, albeit in combination with longstanding nationalistic political perspectives. Therefore, the topic needs to be revisited, as is done here, not least due to the growing multinational and religious tolerance apparent in present academic studies of humanities. By highlighting Northern Europe specifically, the issue aims also to place medieval monasticism in a broader geographical and cultural context as being one of the active agents that formed the Christian worldview of the Middle Ages. The overall ambition of this Special Issue is, at the same time, to emphasize and introduce novel approaches to the reciprocal formation of the pan-European monasticism through its shifting localities and temporality.

Author : Graham Keevill,Mick Aston,Teresa Hall
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785705700

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Monastic Archaeology by Graham Keevill,Mick Aston,Teresa Hall Pdf

The study of monasteries has come a long way since late the late 19th century. The emphasis has shifted away from reconstructing the layouts of monastic buildings to a better understanding of the wider monastic environment. The papers in this volume, partly based on a conference held in Oxford in 1994, are written by some of today's foremost scholars and reflect the diversity of research now being carried out.

Author : Constance H Berman
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580445177

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Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe by Constance H Berman Pdf

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities - particularly a variety of Cistercian communities - work. The records help us reconstruct how nuns and abbesses of Cistercian communities in the thirteenth century organized and kept records, managed their properties, responded to attempts at usurpation, and balanced their lives between devotional practices, which were part of their cloistered world, and family and social responsibilities beyond the convent walls.

Author : Anon,Bernhard Schutz
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780789208293

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Great Monasteries of Europe by Anon,Bernhard Schutz Pdf

This remarkable book is a comprehensive examination of the art and architecture of European monasteries, from early Carolingian examples in the eighth century to a modern structure by Le Corbusier in 1960, featuring an authoritative text and more than five hundred stunning, full-color photographs. This unsurpassed survey offers a fresh chronicle of a largely overlooked subject and hundreds of marvelous images, many of them newly photographed, of more than 150 of the most interesting and best preserved monasteries in Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Italy—all of which are accessible to visitors. Here are unique views of the art and architecture of such treasured places as Mont St. Michel, a wondrous Benedictine sanctuary off the coast of Brittany, and the fabled pilgrimage site in Assisi founded by St. Francis. In an insightful text the author describes the cultural heritage of each of the monasteries portrayed and provides an introduction to monasticism and to the various orders dating from the early Christian era to the present. In addition, the volume offers plans of the sites, a glossary, and a bibliography. Historians and collectors of great books of art history will be intrigued by this unsurpassed collection of photographs and fascinating account of the artistic glory of European monasteries.

Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence,Janet Burton (Medievalist)
Publisher : Medieval World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : 0367767902

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Medieval Monasticism by Clifford Hugh Lawrence,Janet Burton (Medievalist) Pdf

Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the social landscape of the West, and their leaders figured as much in the political as on the spiritual map of the medieval world. In this book many of them, together with their supporters and critics, are presented to us and speak their minds to us. We are shown, for instance, the controversy between the Benedictines and the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the problems that confronted women in religious life. A detailed glossary offers readers a helpful vocabulary of the subject. This fifth edition has been revised by Janet Burton to include an updated bibliography and an introduction which discusses recent trends in monastic studies, including reinterpretations of issues of reform and renewal, new scholarship on religious women, and interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. This book is essential reading for both students and scholars of the medieval world.

Author : François Guizot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Europe
ISBN : IND:30000092056856

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General History of Civilization in Europe by François Guizot Pdf