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Author : Edward B. King
Publisher : Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium
ISBN 13 : 9780918769237
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (692 download)
Download or read book Monks, Nuns, and Friars in Mediaeval Society written by Edward B. King and published by Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364391363X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Virtuosos of Faith written by Gert Melville and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and expertise, they were accorded positions of power and influence, and a wide range of legal, financial and social privileges. As such they present an important opportunity to consider the nature and dynamics of an "elite" in medieval culture. Using medieval religious life as their interpretive lens, the essays of this volume seek to uncover the essential markers of elite status. They explore how those under vows claimed and manifested elite status in complex spiritual, temporal, and social combinations. They explore the workings of elite status from day to day, across region and locale - who earned recognition and how, whether through specific achievements or the deployment of specific capacities; who recognized, conferred, or helped maintain elite status, how and why; how elite status could be redefined, contested or rejected. The essays also seek to understand how medieval European religious elites compared to those found in other cultures and settings, from Syria and South Asia to the early modern transatlantic world.
Author : Mary C. Erler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107435331
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Reading and Writing during the Dissolution written by Mary C. Erler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years from 1534, when Henry VIII became head of the English church until the end of Mary Tudor's reign in 1558, the forms of English religious life evolved quickly and in complex ways. At the heart of these changes stood the country's professed religious men and women, whose institutional homes were closed between 1535 and 1540. Records of their reading and writing offer a remarkable view of these turbulent times. The responses to religious change of friars, anchorites, monks and nuns from London and the surrounding regions are shown through chronicles, devotional texts, and letters. What becomes apparent is the variety of positions that English religious men and women took up at the Reformation and the accommodations that they reached, both spiritual and practical. Of particular interest are the extraordinary letters of Margaret Vernon, head of four nunneries and personal friend of Thomas Cromwell.
Author : Sharon Farmer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724061
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts written by Sharon Farmer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays—all hitherto unpublished—that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory, and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied an image of the society that produced them. Other contributions focus on social categories, usually expressed as dichotomies: male/female, insider/outsider, saint/outcast. Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts is the first book to show the interaction of seemingly antithetical groups of medieval people and the ways in which they were defined by, as well as against, each other. All of the essays, taken together, form a tribute to Lester K. Little, pioneer in the study of religion in medieval society.
Author : A. W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780876307694
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Sex, Priests, and Power written by A. W. Richard Sipe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Sipe examines the continuing sexual crisis facing the Catholic Church today. Has the storm of publicity and controversy caused the church to acknowledge any of the accusations? Will the church accept statistical evidence or alter the way it trains its clergy? How has it come to grips with reforming or retraining abusers? Has it acknowledged the spread of AIDS among its ranks? Why does the church oppress women and react with hostility and fear towards them? Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis addresses these and other questions.
Author : Lester K. Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801486562
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Monks and nuns, saints and outcasts written by Lester K. Little and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce L. Venarde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717243
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society written by Bruce L. Venarde and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Lee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781903153024
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Nunneries, Learning, and Spirituality in Late Medieval English Society written by Paul Lee and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Dartford Priory reveals the Dominican contribution to late medieval English female monastic life and English vernacular spirituality.
Author : Alison I. Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108770630
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West written by Alison I. Beach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dale Anderson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836858976
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (589 download)
Download or read book Monks and Monasteries in the Middle Ages written by Dale Anderson and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins of monasteries, the daily life of monks and nuns, and the challenges the monastic movement faced during the ninth and tenth centuries.
Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249755
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Nuns' Priests' Tales written by Fiona J. Griffiths and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rome -- Brothers, sons, and uncles : nuns' priests and family ties -- Speaking to the bridegroom : women and the power of prayer -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Beati pauperes.
Author : C.H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317504674
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Medieval Monasticism written by C.H. Lawrence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 book is essential reading for both students and scholars of the medieval world.
Author : Andrew Abram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843833867
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages written by Andrew Abram and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its fifteen chapters assess diverse aspects of monastic history, focusing on the wide range of contacts which existed between religious communities and the laity in the later medieval British Isles, covering a range of different religious orders and houses. This period has often been considered to represent a general decline of the regular life; but on the contrary, the essays here demonstrate that there remained a rich monastic culture which, although different from that of earlier centuries, remained vibrant. CONTRIBUTORS: KAREN STOBER, JULIE KERR, EMILIA JAMROZIAK, MARTIN HEALE, COLMAN O CLABAIGH, ANDREW ABRAM, MICHAEL HICKS, JANET BURTON, KIMM PERKINS-CURRAN, JAMES CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, JENS ROHRKASTEN, SHEILA SWEETINBURGH, NICHOLAS ORME, CLAIRE CROSS
Author : George Gordon Coulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Life in the Middle Ages written by George Gordon Coulton and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Rosewell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747812888
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Monastery written by Roger Rosewell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated look at life in abbeys and priories, and within the monastic orders, in the middle ages. Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality, power and charity, learning and invention, they survive today as haunting ruins, great houses and as some of our most important cathedrals and churches. This book examines the growth of monasticism and the different orders of monks; the architecture and administration of monasteries; the daily life of monks and nuns; the art of monasteries and their libraries; their role in caring for the poor and sick; their power and wealth; their decline and suppression; and their ruin and rescue. With beautiful photographs, it illustrates some of Britain's finest surviving monastic buildings such as the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral and the awe-inspiring ruins of Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire.
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 184779307X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Monasticism in late medieval England, c.1300–1535 written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. This book is an ideal introduction to this topic for students and scholars. Supported by an extended and accessible introduction this collection of documents gives an unrivalled insight into the last phase of monastic life in medieval England.
Author : Marilyn Oliva
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155760
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England written by Marilyn Oliva and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed study of female monasticism in the later middle ages, with particular emphasis on the nuns' importance to the local community.
