Medieval monasticism : forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lawrence, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1921-
Edition:	Third edition.
Imprint:	Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education, 2001.
Description:	xiv, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Medieval world Medieval world.
Subject:	Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Monasticism and religious orders -- Middle Ages. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4357299

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ISBN:	0582404274 9780582404274
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Hugh Lawrence traces the Western monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. 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 around them." "In this Third Edition Professor Lawrence has added to or elaborated on a number of important themes such as the impact of the friars on the religious experience of their time, the controversy between the Benedictines and the champions of the Cistercian movement of the twelfth century, and even new details of monastic lodgers and of monastic food."--Jacket.
Govt.docs classification:	HIS1010

Table of Contents:

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations used in the Notes
1. The Call of the Desert
The desert hermits
St Pachomius and the cenobitical life
St Basil
The desert tradition transmitted to the West
The first Western monks
2. The Rule of St Benedict
St Benedict and his biographer
The Rule and its sources
The monk's profession according to the Rule
The monk's life according to the Rule
3. Wandering Saints and Princely Patrons
Columbanus in Gaul
Early Irish monasticism
Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility
The double monasteries of Gaul
The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain
4. England and the Continent
Roman and Celtic foundations
Wearmouth and Jarrow
The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent
5. The Emperor and the Rule
The religious motives for endowment
Social convenience
Public policy
The Rule under imperial supervision
Collapse and dispersal
6. The Age of Cluny
The rise of Cluny
The Cluniac empire
The Cluniac ideal
Gorze and the German revival
The English revival of the tenth century
7. The Cloister and the World
The daily round
Monastic tasks and their distribution
Recruitment
The social and economic role
Feudal obligations
Lay patrons
Relations with bishops and secular clergy
The cloister and the schools
8. The Quest for the Primitive
The orders of hermits
The Rule and the desert
The Carthusians
The canons regular
The Premonstratensians
9. The Cistercian Model
The truth of the letter
Growth and recruitment
The constitution of the order
The general chapter
Criticism and dilution
10. The New Monasticism Versus the Old
St Bernard and Peter the Venerable
Reformers and traditionalists
11. A New Kind of Knighthood
The Templars
The Hospitallers
Decline and fall
12. Sisters or Handmaids
Frauenfrage--the question of the sisters
St Gilbert and the Order of Sempringham
The Cistercian nuns
A new experiment: the Beguines
13. The Friars
The social context
New evangelists
Franciscan origins
The Order of Preachers
The mission of the friars
Student orders
The complaint of the clergy
The place of the nuns
Other Mendicant Orders
14. Epilogue: The Individual and the Community
Glossary
A Cistercian abbey ground plan
Index

Medieval monasticism : forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages /

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