The Cambridge history of Medieval monasticism in the Latin West / edited by Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beach, Alison I., editor.

Cochelin, Isabelle, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Monasticism and religious orders--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Contents:

Volume I

General introduction / Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin

Part I.tThe origins of Christian monasticism to the eighth century: The monastic laboratory : perspectives of research in late antique and early medieval monasticism / Albrecht Diem and Claudia Rapp

Re-reading monastic traditions : monks and nuns, East and West, from the origins to c. 750 / Anne-Marie Helvetius (with the collaboration of Michel Kaplan, Anne Boud'Hors, Muriel Debie, and Benedicte Lesieur)

The archaeology of the earliest monasteries / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom and Hendrik Dey

Egyptian nuns in late antiquity as exemplars / Mariachiara Giorda

Psalmody and prayer in early monasticism / Peter Jeffery

Heterodoxy and monasticism around the Mediterranean Sea / David Brakke

The invention of western monastic literature : texts and communities / Roberto Alciati

Monastic rules (4th-9th c.) / Albrecht Diem and Philip Rousseau

Social plurality and monastic diversity in late antique Hispania (6th-8th c.) / Pablo C. Diaz

Female house ascetics from the fourth to the twelfth century / Eliana Magnani

The archaeology of the earliest monasteries in Italy and France (5th-8th c.) / Sebastien Bully and Eleonora Destefanis

Nuns and monks at work : equality or distinction between the sexes? a study of Frankish monasteries from the sixth to the tenth century / Isabelle Real

Ascetic prayer for the dead in the early medieval West / Gordon Blennemann

Monastic identity in early medieval Ireland / Lisa Bitel

Constructing monastic space in the early and central medieval West (5th-12th c.) / Michel Lauwers

The economy of Byzantine monasteries / Michel Kaplan

Part IV. Forms of monasticism in the late Middle Ages: Late medieval monasticism : historiography and prospects / Elisabeth Lusset and Bert Roest

Sources of late medieval monasticism / Cecile Caby

Monastic liturgy, 1100-1500 : continuity and performance / Susan Boynton

Books and libraries within monasteries / Eva Schlotheuber and John T. McQuillen

Art in monastic churches of Western Europe from the twelfth to the fourteenth century / Stefanie Seeberg and Alexandra Gajewski

Lay brothers and sisters in the high and late Middle Ages / Megan Cassidy-Welch

Feminine religious life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Cristina Andenna

Striving for religious perfection in the lay world of northern Europe / Alison More and Anneke Mulder-Bakker

Monks and the universities, c. 1200-1500 / James Clark

Bishops, canon law, and the religious, c.1140-1350 / Tristan Sharp

Daily life in late medieval monasteries / Christian Knudsen

Monastic preaching, c. 1350-1545 / James Clark and Kate E. Bush

Research on monasticism in the German tradition / Sigrid Hirbodian

Satirical depictions of monastic life / Sita Steckel

A crisis of late medieval monasticism? / Bert Roest.

Volume II. Part III. The long twelfth century: Historiographical approaches to monasticism in long twelfth century / John van Engen

Sources for monasticism in the long twelfth century / Lauren Mancia

Hermitism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Kathryn L. Jasper and John Howe

Monastic theologies c. 1050-1200 / Constant J. Mews

Monastic preaching and the sermon in medieval Latin Christendom to the twelfth century / Timothy M. Baker and Beverly Kienzle

The Mass in monastic practice : nuns and ordained monks, c. 400-1200 / Fiona Griffiths

Reclusion in the Middle Ages / Paulette L'Hermite-Leclercq

Similarities and differences between monks and regular canons in the twelfth century / Ursula Vones-Liebenstein

The institutionalization of religious orders (12th-13th c.) / Gert Melville

Gender and monastic liturgy in the Latin West (high and late Middle Ages) / Gisela Muschiol

Monastic landscapes / Hedwig Rockelein

Later monastic economies / Constance Berman

Nobility and monastic patronage : the view from outside the monastery / Jonathan Lyon

The medical role of monasteries in the Latin west, c. 1050-1300 / Elma Brenner

East-central European monasticism : between East and West? / Emilia Jamroziak

Monasticism, colonization and ethnic tension in late medieval Ireland / Colman O Clabaigh

Part II. The Carolingians to the eleventh century: The historiography of central medieval western monasticism / Felice Lifshitz

Sources for the history of monasticism in the central Middle Ages (c. 800-1100) / Scott Bruce

Questions of monastic identity in medieval southern Italy and Sicily (c. 500-1200) / Valerie Ramseyer

Discerning "reform" in monastic liturgy (c. 750-1050) / Jesse Billett

Monasticism, reform and authority in the Carolingian Era / Rutger Kramer

Carolingian monastic schools and reform / John Contreni

Monastic economics in the Carolingian Age / Jean-Pierre Devroey

Missions on the northern and eastern frontiers, c. 700-1100 / Janneke Raaijmakers

Minsters and monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England / Christopher Andrew Jones

Monastic art and architecture, c. 700-1100 : material and immaterial worlds / Adam Cohen

Monastic daily life (c. 750-1100) : a tight community shielded by an outer court / Isabelle Cochelin

The double monastery as an historiographical problem (4th-12th c.) / Alison Beach and Andra Juganaru

Interactions between monks and the lay nobility (from the Carolingian Era through the eleventh century) / Isabelle Rose

Monastic reform in the tenth to early twelfth century / Steven Vanderputten

Monastic canon law in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries / Christof Rolker

Eastern influence on western monasticism, 850-1050 / John Howe

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108766760 (ebook)

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