BOOK
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 |
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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 |