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, ap...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Clark, James G. 1970- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Woodbridge, UK Boydell Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:	Studies in the history of medieval religion v. 30
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1100-1600 Monasticism and religious orders / England / History / Middle Ages, 600-1500 Monastic and religious life / England / History / Middle Ages, 600-1500 Ordensleben England Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2023) Introduction: The culture of medieval English monasticism / James G. Clark -- Early Tudor monastic enterprise : choral polyphony for the liturgical service / Roger Bowers -- Monastic murals and lectio in the later Middle Ages / Miriam Gill -- Meaning of monastic culture : Anselm and his contemporaries / G.R. Evans -- Monks of Durham and the study of scripture / A.J. Piper -- Worcester monks and education, c.1300 / R.M. Thomson -- What nuns read : the state of the question / David N. Bell -- Private reading in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English nunnery / Mary C. Erler -- Holy expectations : the female monastic vocation in the Diocese of Winchester on the eve of the Reformation / Barry Collett -- Culture at Canterbury in the fifteenth century : some indications of the cultural environment of a monk of Christ Church / Joan Greatrex -- Monastic culture of friendship / Julian Haseldine -- Monastic time / J.D. North
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 219 Seiten
ISBN:	9781846155307
DOI:	10.1017/9781846155307