The Culture Of Medieval English Monasticism

Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Katherine Allen Smith,Katherine Katherine Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Martin Heale
Publisher : Manchester Medieval Sources
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Bruce L. Venarde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : C.H. Lawrence,Janet Burton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000955880

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Medieval Monasticism by C.H. Lawrence,Janet Burton 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 : Edel Bhreathnach,Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton,Keith Smith
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Francis Aidan Gasquet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066204228

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English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet Pdf

English Monastic Life is a work by Francis A. Gasquet. It details daily monastic life, the structures within them and the religious procedures undertaken by nuns and monks.

Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839736

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The Benedictines in the Middle Ages by James G. Clark Pdf

A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Alison Beach,Isabelle Cochelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Alison I. Beach,Isabelle Cochelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108770637

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West by Alison I. 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. 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 : John Compton Dickinson
Publisher : London, Black
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Monasteries
ISBN : UOM:39015074783468

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Monastic Life in Medieval England by John Compton Dickinson Pdf

Author : Clifford Hugh Lawrence
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015406948

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Medieval Monasticism by Clifford Hugh Lawrence Pdf

For a thousand years the monasteries and religious orders played a major role in the society, economy and culture of the west. This book traces the Western monastic tradition in its social context, from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through to the many and various forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. This new edition contains new work on: monastic studies and the relationship between the cloister and the schools; on the controversy between the Benedictines and the spokesmen of the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century; and on the social composition of the nunneries and the particular problems that confronted women in the religious life.

Author : A. Hamilton Thompson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547052852

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English Monasteries by A. Hamilton Thompson Pdf

"English Monasteries" by A. Hamilton Thompson is a study of middle ages monasteries, focusing on the uses of major monks' buildings. This book is ideal for those who desire to know something about one of the most interesting sides of the life of the middle ages. The chapters include: THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS THE CONVENTUAL CHURCH THE CLOISTER AND ITS BUILDINGS THE CISTERCIAN CLOISTER, ETC. DISCIPLINE AND THE DAILY LIFE

Author : Steven Vanderputten
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110543780

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Medieval Monasticisms by Steven Vanderputten Pdf

From the deserts of Egypt to the emergence of the great monastic orders, the story of late antique and medieval monasticism in the West used to be straightforward. But today we see the story as far 'messier' - less linear, less unified, and more historicized. In the first part of this book, the reader is introduced to the astonishing variety of forms and experiences of the monastic life, their continuous transformation, and their embedding in physical, socio-economic, and even personal settings. The second part surveys and discusses the extensive international scholarship on which the first part is built. The third part, a research tool, rounds off the volume with a carefully representative bibliography of literature and primary sources.