Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages / Edition 3

by C. H. Lawrence, C. Lawrence

Overview

Hugh Lawrence's book ranges right across Europe and the Middle East as well as reconstructing the internal life, experience and aims of the medieval cloister, he also explores the many-sided relationships between the monasteries and the secular world from which they drew recruits. This Third Edition contains new thoughts and perspectives throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582404274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/23/2000
Series:	Medieval World Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

C.H. Lawrence was Professor Emeritus of the University of London, UK. His previous publications include St Edmund of Abingdon (1960), Matthew Paris and St Edmund (1996), The Friars: The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society (2001) and The Letters of Adam March (ed. and translated 2006-10).

Janet Burton is Professor of medieval history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Her previous publications include Historia Selebiensis Monasterii: The History of the Monastery of Selby (2013), Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. with Karen Stöber (2013), The Regular Canons in the British Isles in the Middle Ages, ed. with Karen Stöber (2011) and, with Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (2011). She is joint general editor of the Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (Brepols).

Table of Contents

1. The call of the desert.2. The rule of St Benedict.3. Wandering saints and princely patrons.4. England and the continent.5. The emperor and the rule.6. The age of cluny.7. The cloister and the world.8. The quest for the primitive.9. The Cistercian model10. The new monasticism versus the old.11. A new kind of knighthood.12. Sister or handmaids.13. The Friars.14. Epilogue: The individual and the community.

Editorial Reviews

"Professor Lawrence goes straight to the head of the class for his brilliant survey" Journal of Ecclesiastical History

From the Publisher

This is a good, basic introduction to the history of monasticism, suitable for undergraduates and interested readers new to the subject or as a general reference for medievalists. Following chapters on the beginning of monasticism with the desert fathers, St. Benedict and his Rule, Lawrence (emeritus, history, U. of London, England) provides a description and history for orders created by the 13th century, and includes separate chapters on nuns and military orders. New to this edition is extended treatment of both the impact of the friars of the 13th century and the 12th-century controversy between the Benedictines and Cistercians. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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