Overview
Founded in 793 and dissolved in 1539, from the mid-12th-century onwards St Albans laid claim, with some justification, to being the premier Benedictine monastery in England. This book is intended as one piece of a jigsaw, ultimately aiming at providing a picture of monastic life in England. It studies the internal history of the abbey at its most powerful, dealing with both the organization of monastic life and monastic spirituality. Since a monastery has no life apart from its monks, there is a particular focus on the individual abbots during the period of the establishment's greatest prosperity.
Full Product Details
Author: Michelle Still ,
Dr. Brenda Bolton ,
Professor Anne J. Duggan ,
Dr. Damian J. Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.657kg
ISBN: 9780754605218
ISBN 10: 0754605213
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 28 February 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'... a very clearly organized study... fortified with four appendices, an excellent bibliography and an adequate index.' American Benedictine Review '... provides a valuable contribution to the history of monastic life in medieval England.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique 'This book is a careful, comprehensive, and well written sudy of the subject with which it deals, drawing on a wide variety of sources in manuscript and print as well as in books and articles, most notably the three-volume Gesta Abbatum in the Rolls series'. Albion
'... a very clearly organized study... fortified with four appendices, an excellent bibliography and an adequate index.' American Benedictine Review '... provides a valuable contribution to the history of monastic life in medieval England.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclesiastique 'This book is a careful, comprehensive, and well written sudy of the subject with which it deals, drawing on a wide variety of sources in manuscript and print as well as in books and articles, most notably the three-volume Gesta Abbatum in the Rolls series'. Albion
'... a very clearly organized study... fortified with four appendices, an excellent bibliography and an adequate index.' American Benedictine Review '... provides a valuable contribution to the history of monastic life in medieval England.' Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 'This book is a careful, comprehensive, and well written sudy of the subject with which it deals, drawing on a wide variety of sources in manuscript and print as well as in books and articles, most notably the three-volume Gesta Abbatum in the Rolls series'. Albion
