Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles (eBook)

Essays in Honour of Janet Burton

Julie Kerr, Emilia Jamroziak, Karen Stöber (Herausgeber)

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2018
304 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-319-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Burton celebrates her remarkable contribution to monastic scholarship, in particular her work on monasticism in the North of England and Wales, nuns and their experience, and monastic record-keeping and history writing.

Autor

This book will be of interest to academics and students’ studying medieval religious orders, those interested in the British Isles in the Middle Ages, as well as friends, colleagues and students of Professor Burton.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain
1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark
2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval
English monasteries - Martin Heale
3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh
4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David Austin
Part II: Religious and laity
5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050–1230 - Edel Bhreathnach
6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1539 - Michael Carter
7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross
8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Dramatisation of Xenophobia
in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton
9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin
10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew Prescott
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world
11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies
and pitfalls - Kimm Curran
12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding
13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from
visitation records - Veronica O'Mara
Bibliography of Janet Burton's publications
Abbreviations to the index
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: British • Burton • Essays • honour • isles • Janet • Life • Medieval • Monastic • of
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-319-0 / 1786833190
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-319-8 / 9781786833198