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The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism

by James G. Clark

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell& Brewer Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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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 not for the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalite - 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. The contributors include: 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.
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  • Author

    James G. Clark

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell& Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    September 2007

  • Weight

    527g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781843833215

  • ISBN-10

    1843833212

  • Eden Code

    2428029

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