Culture of Medieval English Monasticism

Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution.

List of contents

Introduction: The Culture of English Monasticism - James G. Clark
An Early Tudor Monastic Enterprise: Choral Polyphony for the Liturgical Service - Roger Bowers
Monastic Murals and Lectio in the Later Middle Ages - Miriam Gill
The Meaning of Monastic Culture: Anselm and his Contemporaries - Gillian R Evans
The Monks of Durham and the Study of Scripture - A. J. Piper
Worcester Monks and Education, c. 1300 - R. M. Thomson
What Nuns Read: The State of the Question - David Bell
Private Reading in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century English Nunnery - Mary C. Erler
Holy Expectations: The Female Monastic Vocation in the Diocese of Winchester on the Eve of the Reformation - Barry Collett
Culture at Canterbury in the Fifteenth Century: Some Indications of the Cultural Environment of a Monk of Christ Church - Joan Greatrex
The Monastic Culture of Friendship - Julian P Haseldine
Monastic Time - J D North

Product details

• Authors: James G. Clark
• Assisted by: James G Clark (Editor), James G. Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2007
• EAN: 9781843833215
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-321-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Medi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; HISTORY / Medieval, Religion - Church History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, RELIGION / Monasticism