| Description |
272 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), maps, plans ; 32 cm |
| Contents |
Monastic contribution to the twelfth-century renaissance (Architecture & the crafts ; Monks & Romanesque art ; Monastic involvement ; Theophilus ; Work & books ; Books & the apostolic life ; Biography & history ; St Anselm, theology & humanism) -- The Augustinian canons (The apostolic life ; Rule of St Augustine ; The movement in Italy, france & Spain ; Germany, Austria & the British Isles ; Distinguishing between monks & canons : the canon of Liège ; Chaucer) -- Cistercians (Citeaux, Clairvaux & St Bernard ; Cistercian programme : choir monks & lay brothers ; Seclusion, self-sufficiency & manual work ; Puritanism & efficiency ; Uniformity, architecture & the Cistercian constitution ; Rievaulx & St Ailred ; The adventure & its victims) -- The knights -- On abbesses & prioresses |
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Prelude (St Basil ; St Augustine ; John Cassian) -- Rule of St Benedict -- Formation of traditional monasticism (From St Benedict of Nursia to St Benedict of Aniane ; Cluny & Gorze in the tenth & eleventh centuries) -- Life, work & prayer (Daily round ; Officials & the monastic economy ; Cluny, the new monasticism & the twelfth century renaissance) -- Hermits (Influence of Italy in the eleventh century ; St Romuald & St Peter Damian : Camaldoli & Vallombrosa ; Carthusians ; Contrast of community & hermitage) -- Cloister & the world (900-1050 : monasteries as the property of kings & princes ; Recruitment in the eleventh & twelfth centuries ; Social change, 1050-1150 ; Lay offerings ; Abbey & city : San Zeno, Verona) |
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St Norbert & St Francis : the Premonstratensians & the friars (Norbert of Xanten ; Apostolic life in the twelfth & thirteenth centuries ; Francis of Assisi ; Franciscan & Dominican friars) -- Three visits (Fountains ; Mont Saint-Michel ; Sant' Ambrogio, Milan) -- 1300 : the monastic map of Europe |
| Analysis |
Monasteries |
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Monasteries - Europe |
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Monasticism and religious orders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published as: The monastic world. London : Elek, 1974 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 256-263 |
| Subject |
Monasteries -- Europe.
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Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Monasticism and religious orders -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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| Author |
Swaan, Wim.
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| ISBN |
0907853307 |
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