Monasteries and society in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages /
[Book]
edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stöber.
Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2008.
1 online resource (252 pages) :
illustrations.
Studies in the history of medieval religion,
v. 35
0955-2480 ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Monasteries and education. Monasteries and secular education in late medieval England / James G. Clark -- 'Make straight in the desert a highway for our God': Carthusians and community in late medieval England / Glyn Coppack -- Monasteries and open space. Early Franciscan legislation and lay society / Jens Röhrkasten -- The Austin Friars in late medieval Canterbury: negotiating spaces / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- Religious houses in the region. Monasteries in medieval Cornwall: mediocrity or merit? / Nicholas Orme -- Monasteries and society in sixteenth-century Yorkshire: the last years of Roche Abbey / Claire Cross.
The meeting of the worlds. The social networks of late medieval Welsh monasteries / Karen Stöber -- Cistercian hospitality in the later Middle Ages / Julie Kerr -- Cistercians and border conflicts: some comparisons between the experiences of Scotland and Pomerania / Emilia Jamroziak -- 'Not a thing for a stranger to enter upon': the selection of monastic superiors in late medieval and Tudor England / Martin Heale -- Religious houses and their patrons and benefactors. Patronage, prestige and politics: the observant Franciscans at Adare / Colmán Ó Clabaigh -- The Augustinian priory of Wombridge and its benefactors in the later Middle Ages / Andrew Abram -- The rising price of piety in the later Middle Ages / Michael Hicks -- Looking for medieval nuns / Janet Burton -- "Quhat say ye now, my lady priores? How have ye usit your office, can ye ges?': politics, power and realities of the office of a prioress in her community in late medieval Scotland / Kimm Perkins-Curran.
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New essays on the monastic life in the later Middle Ages show that far from being in decline, it remained rich and vibrant.
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JSTOR
22573/ctt98z78n
Monasteries and society in the British Isles in the later Middle Ages.
9781843833864
Monastic and religious life-- Great Britain-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.