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Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Julie Kerr | Emilia Jamroziak | Karen Stöber

(2018)

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Abstract

This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover\r Front Cover
Title Page iii
Copyright Page\r iv
Contents\r v
Acknowledgements vii
List of illustrations ix
List of abbreviations xi
List of contributors xiii
Introduction xv
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain 1
Chapter 1: Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond 3
Chapter 2: ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries 27
Chapter 3: Formed by word and example: the training of novices in fourteenth-century Dublin 41
Chapter 4: Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future 53
Part II: Religious and laity 69
Chapter 5: The world of bishops in religious orders in medieval Ireland, 1050–1230 71
Chapter 6: Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1538 89
Chapter 7: The last days of Bridlington Priory 105
Chapter 8: Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s dramatisation of xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo 115
Chapter 9: The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese 127
Chapter 10: The abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English rising of 1381 139
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world 159
Chapter 11: Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls 161
Chapter 12: ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity 173
Chapter 13: Preaching to nuns in the Norwich diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records 189
Select Bibliography 213
Bibliography of Janet Burton’s publications 219
Index 225
Tabula Gratulatoria 236
Back Cover\r Back Cover