The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans, 1290-1349

ISBN-13: 9780754605218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 360 str.

Still, Michelle

Opis

Founded in 793 and dissolved in 1539, from the mid-12th-century onwards St Albans laid claim, with some justification, to being the premier Benedictine monastery in England. This book is intended as one piece of a jigsaw, ultimately aiming at providing a picture of monastic life in England. It studies the internal history of the abbey at its most powerful, dealing with both the organization of monastic life and monastic spirituality. Since a monastery has no life apart from its monks, there is a particular focus on the individual abbots during the period of the establishment's greatest prosperity.

Recenzje

'... a very clearly organized study... fortified with four appendices, an excellent bibliography and an adequate index.' American Benedictine Review '... provides a valuable contribution to the history of monastic life in medieval England.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 'This book is a careful, comprehensive, and well written sudy of the subject with which it deals, drawing on a wide variety of sources in manuscript and print as well as in books and articles, most notably the three-volume Gesta Abbatum in the Rolls series'. Albion

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Alban and his monastery; The abbot and the monastic community; The abbot and secular life; The abbot and the cells of St Albans; Education at St Albans in the 14th century; The provision of charity; Conclusions; Appendix A: Appropriated churches; Appendix B: Priors; Appendix C: Education at St Albans in the first half of the 14th century; Appendix D: The provision of charity; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Michelle Still