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

by: Lawrence, C.H.

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

by: Lawrence, C.H.

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9780582017276
ISBN 10:
0582017270
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2000
Publisher: Longman
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Summary

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.

Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xii
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xiii
Abbreviations used in the Notes	p. xiv
The Call of the Desert	p. 1
The desert hermits	p. 5
St Pachomius and the cenobitical life	p. 7
St Basil	p. 8
The desert tradition transmitted to the West	p. 10
The first Western monks	p. 12
The Rule of St Benedict	p. 18
St Benedict and his biographer	p. 18
The Rule and its sources	p. 21
The monk's profession according to the Rule	p. 24
The monk's life according to the Rule	p. 29
Wandering Saints and Princely Patrons	p. 39
Columbanus in Gaul	p. 39
Early Irish monasticism	p. 41
Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility	p. 47
The double monasteries of Gaul	p. 49
The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain	p. 50
England and the Continent	p. 54
Roman and Celtic foundations	p. 54
Wearmouth and Jarrow	p. 58
The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent	p. 61
The Emperor and the Rule	p. 66
The religious motives for endowment	p. 66
Social convenience	p. 68
Public policy	p. 69
The Rule under imperial supervision	p. 73
Collapse and dispersal	p. 78
The Age of Cluny	p. 83
The rise of Cluny	p. 83
The Cluniac empire	p. 87
The Cluniac ideal	p. 94
Gorze and the German revival	p. 99
The English revival of the tenth century	p. 100
The Cloister and the World	p. 107
The daily round	p. 108
Monastic tasks and their distribution	p. 117
Recruitment	p. 120
The social and economic role	p. 123
Feudal obligations	p. 127
Lay patrons	p. 129
Relations with bishops and secular clergy	p. 132
The cloister and the schools	p. 137
The Quest for the Primitive	p. 146
The orders of hermits	p. 149
The Rule and the desert	p. 152
The Carthusians	p. 156
The canons regular	p. 160
The Premonstratensians	p. 166
The Cistercian Model	p. 172
The truth of the letter	p. 172
Growth and recruitment	p. 180
The constitution of the order	p. 183
The general chapter	p. 187
Criticism and dilution	p. 189
The New Monasticism Versus the Old	p. 199
St Bernard and Peter the Venerable	p. 199
Reformers and traditionalists	p. 203
A New Kind of Knighthood	p. 207
The Templars	p. 209
The Hospitallers	p. 212
Decline and fall	p. 214
Sisters or Handmaids	p. 217
Frauenfrage--the question of the sisters	p. 217
St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham	p. 224
The Cistercian nuns	p. 227
A new experiment: the Beguines	p. 231
The Friars	p. 238
The social context	p. 239
New evangelists	p. 241
Franciscan origins	p. 244
The Order of Preachers	p. 252
The mission of the friars	p. 258
Student orders	p. 261
The complaint of the clergy	p. 264
The place of the nuns	p. 268
Other Mendicant Orders	p. 269
Epilogue: The Individual and the Community	p. 279
Glossary	p. 295
A Cistercian abbey ground plan	p. 305
Index	p. 307
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