Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, C.600900

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Foot is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford. Klappentext A major 2006 history of English monasticism between the sixth and tenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. Sarah Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: situating the problem; 2. The ideal minster; Part I. Within the Walls: 3. The making of minsters; 4. The minster community; 5. Daily life within the minster; Part II. Without the Walls: 6. Dependencies, affinities, clusters; 7. Minsters in the world; Coda; 8. Horizons; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Foot, Sarah (University of Sheffield) Foot
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2006
• EAN: 9780521859462
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85946-2
• No. of pages: 414
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories