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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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: desert hermits
• St Pachomius and the cenobitical life
• St Basil
• desert tradition transmitted to the West
• first Western monks
• St Benedict and his biographer
• Rule and its sources
• monk's profession according to the Rule
• monk's life according to the Rule
• Columbanus in Gaul
• Early Irish monasticism
• Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility
• double monasteries of Gaul
• mixed rule in Gaul and Spain
• Roman and Celtic foundations
• Wearmouth and Jarrow
• Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent
• religious motives for endowment
• Social convenience
• Public policy

• Rule under imperial supervision
• Collapse and dispersal
• rise of Cluny
• Cluniac empire
• Cluniac ideal
• Gorze and the German revival
• English revival of the tenth century
• daily round
• Monastic tasks and their distribution
• Recruitment
• social and economic role
• Feudal obligations
• Lay patrons
• Relations with bishops and secular clergy
• cloister and the schools
• orders of hermits
• Rule and the desert
• Carthusians
• canons regular
• Premonstratensians
• truth of the letter
• Growth and recruitment
• constitution of the order
• general chapter
• Criticism and dilution
• St Bernard and Peter the Venerable
• Reformers and traditionalists
• Templars
• Hospitallers
• Decline and fall
• Frauenfrage - the question of the sisters
• St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham
• Cistercian nuns
• new experiment: the Beguines
• social context
• New evangelists
• Franciscan origins
• Order of Preachers
• mission of the friars
• Student orders
• complaint of the clergy
• place of the nuns
• Other Mendicant Orders.

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Author/Creator:

Lawrence, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1921- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Medieval monasticism: forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages [by Lawrence, C.H.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Medieval Monasticism : Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages [by Lawrence, C.H.] (Hoboken : Taylor and Francis,c2015 — ISBN 9781138854031)

Related Series:

Medieval world

Subjects:

Monasticism and religious orders — History — Middle Ages, 600-1500

600-1500

Monasticism and religious orders

Monasticism and religious orders — Middle Ages

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 16, 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BX2470 .L39 2015

ISBNs:

9781317504689
1317504682
9781138854031 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

907374351

Other Control Numbers:

978367 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12645217