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ISBN 10: 1843833212

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Author: James G. Clark

The cultural remains of England’s abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought – the underlying norms, values and mentalité – of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover “the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk”. These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence – manuscript books,wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music – to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism
2. An Early Tudor Monastic Enterprise: Choral Polyphony for the Liturgical Service
3. Monastic Murals and Lectio in the Later Middle Ages
4. The Meaning of Monastic Culture: Anselm and his Contemporaries
5. The Monks of Durham and the Study of Scripture
6. Worcester Monks and Education, c.1300
7. What Nuns Read: The State of the Question
8. Private Reading in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century English Nunnery
9. Holy Expectations: The Female Monastic Vocation in the Diocese of Winchester on the Eve of the Refor
10. Culture at Canterbury in the Fifteenth Century: Some Indications of the Cultural Environment of a Mo
11. The Monastic Culture of Friendship
12. Monastic Time

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