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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lawrence, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1921- Medieval monasticism. London ; New York : Longman, 1984 (OCoLC)562747545 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
C H Lawrence |
| ISBN: | 058249186X 9780582491861 0582491851 9780582491854 |
| OCLC Number: | 10021487 |
| Description: | ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The Call of the Desert -- The desert hermits -- St Pachomius and the cenobitical life -- St Basil -- The desert tradition transmitted to the West -- The first Western monks -- The Rule of St Benedict -- St Benedict and his biographer -- The Rule and its sources -- The monk's profession according to the Rule -- The monk's life according to the Rule -- Wandering Saints and Princely Patrons -- Columbanus in Gaul -- Early Irish monasticism -- Columbanus and the Merovingian nobility -- The double monasteries of Gaul -- The mixed rule in Gaul and Spain -- England and the Continent -- Roman and Celtic foundations -- Wearmouth and Jarrow -- The Anglo-Saxon monks on the Continent -- The Emperor and the Rule -- The religious motives for endowment -- Social convenience -- Public policy -- The Rule under imperial supervision -- Collapse and dispersal -- The Age of Cluny -- The rise of Cluny -- The Cluniac empire -- The Cluniac ideal -- Gorze and the German revival -- The English revival of the tenth century -- The Cloister and the World -- The daily round -- Monastic tasks and their distribution -- Recruitment -- The social and economic role -- Feudal obligations -- Lay patrons -- Relations with bishops and secular clergy -- The cloister and the schools -- The Quest for the Primitive -- The orders of hermits -- The Rule and the desert -- The Carthusians -- The canons regular -- The Premonstratensians -- The Cistercian Model -- The truth of the letter -- Growth and recruitment -- The constitution of the order -- The general chapter. |
| Responsibility: | C.H. Lawrence. |
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