| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Physical description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Medieval world |
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Medieval world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of images; Publisher's acknowledgements; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Abbreviations used in the Notes; 1 THE CALL OF THE DESERT; The desert hermits; St Pachomius and the cenobitical life; St Basil; The desert tradition transmitted to the West; The first Western monks; 2 THE RULE OF ST BENEDICT; St Benedict and his biographer; The Rule and its sources; The monk's profession according to the Rule; The monk's life according to the Rule. |
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3 WANDERING SAINTS AND PRINCELY PATRONSColumbanus in Gaul; Early Irish monasticism; Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility; The double monasteries of Gaul; The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain; 4 ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT; Roman and Celtic foundations; Wearmouth and Jarrow; The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent; 5 THE EMPEROR AND THE RULE; The religious motives for endowment; Social convenience; Public policy; The Rule under imperial supervision; Collapse and dispersal; 6 THE AGE OF CLUNY; The rise of Cluny; The Cluniac empire; The Cluniac ideal; Gorze and the German revival. |
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The English revival of the tenth century7 THE CLOISTER AND THE WORLD; The daily round; Monastic tasks and their distribution; Recruitment; The social and economic role; Feudal obligations; Lay patrons; Relations with bishops and secular clergy; The cloister and the schools; 8 MONASTIC REFORM: THE QUEST FOR THE PRIMITIVE; The orders of hermits; The Rule and the desert; The Carthusians; The canons regular; The Premonstratensians; 9 THE CISTERCIAN MODEL; The truth of the letter; Growth and recruitment; The constitution of the order; The general chapter; Criticism and dilution. |
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10 THE NEW MONASTICISM VERSUS THE OLDSt Bernard and Peter the Venerable; Reformers and traditionalists; 11 A NEW KIND OF KNIGHTHOOD; The Templars; The Hospitallers; Decline and fall; 12 SISTERS OR HANDMAIDS; Frauenfrage -- the question of the sisters; St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham; The Cistercian nuns; A new experiment: the Beguines; 13 THE FRIARS; The social context; New evangelists; Franciscan origins; The Order of Preachers; The mission of the friars; Student orders; The complaint of the clergy; The place of the nuns; Other Mendicant Orders. |
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14 EPILOGUE: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITYGlossary; A Cistercian abbey ground plan; Index. |
| Summary |
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. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided 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 suppo. |
| Subject |
Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Electronic books. |
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History |
| ISBN |
9781317504689 (electronic bk.) |
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1317504682 (electronic bk.) |
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1138854034 |
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9781138854031 |
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9781138854048 |
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1138854042 |
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9781315715667 |
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131571566X |
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9781317504672 |
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1317504674 |
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9781317504665 |
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1317504666 |
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9781138854031 |
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