Medieval Monasticism

ISBN-13: 9780367767907 / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str.

Wales) Burto Janet (University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The call of the desert  2. The rule of St Benedict  3. Wandering saints and princely patrons  4. England and the continent  5. The emperor and the rule  6. The age of cluny  7. The cloister and the world  8. Monastic reform: The quest for the primitive  9. The Cistercian model  10. The new monasticism versus the old  11. A new kind of knighthood  12. Sister or handmaids  13. The Friars  14. Epilogue: The individual and the community

O autorze

C.H. Lawrence was Professor Emeritus of the University of London, UK. His previous publications include St Edmund of Abingdon (1960), Matthew Paris and St Edmund (1996), The Friars: The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society (2001) and The Letters of Adam March (ed. and translated 2006-10).

Janet Burton is Professor of medieval history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Her previous publications include Historia Selebiensis Monasterii: The History of the Monastery of Selby (2013), Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. with Karen Stöber (2013), The Regular Canons in the British Isles in the Middle Ages, ed. with Karen Stöber (2011) and, with Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (2011). She is joint general editor of the Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (Brepols).