Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Julie Kerr, Emilia Jamroziak, Karen Stöber

Description

This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain
1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark
2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval
English monasteries - Martin Heale
3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh
4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David Austin
Part II: Religious and laity
5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050–1230 - Edel Bhreathnach
6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1539 - Michael Carter
7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross
8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Dramatisation of Xenophobia
in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton
9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin
10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew Prescott
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world
11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies
and pitfalls - Kimm Curran
12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding
13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from
visitation records - Veronica O'Mara
Bibliography of Janet Burton's publications
Abbreviations to the index
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

Sujets

• Essays
• Medieval
• Histoire
• Edad Media
• Honour
• Monasticism
• Middle Ages
• British
• Great Britain
• Janet
• Isles
• History
• Monastic
• Life
• Burton
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786833198
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 23 Mo

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MONASTIC LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL BRITISH ISLES

MONASTIC LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL BRITISH ISLES

E s s a y s i n H o n o u r o f J a n e t B u r t o n

E D I T E D B Y K A R E N S TÖ BE R , J U L I E K E R R A N D E M I L I A J A M R O Z I A K

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2018

© The Contributors,2018

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Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations List of contributors

CONTENTS

Introduction Karen Stöber and Emilia Jamroziak

Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain 1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond James Clark 2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries Martin Heale 3. Formed by word and example: the training of novices in fourteenthcentury Dublin Colmán Ó Clabaigh 4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future David Austin

Part II: Religious and laity 5. The world of bishops in religious orders in medieval Ireland, 1050–1230 Edel Bhreathnach 6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1538 Michael Carter 7. The last days of Bridlington Priory Claire Cross 8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s dramatisation of xenophobia inRelatio de Standardo Marsha L. Dutton

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The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese Philippa Hoskin The abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English rising of 1381 Andrew Prescott

Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world 11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls Kimm Curran 12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity Brian Golding 13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records Veronica O’Mara

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

he editors are indebted to the help and encouragement of many people T in the making of this book. We would like to thank the University of Wales Press and especially Llion Wigley and Siân Chapman for their support and patience throughout this project. We are grateful to our contributors for producing their chapters cheerfully despite the tight deadlines and strict word limit, and to all those who have participated in theTabula Gratulatoria. Our thanks to Dani Leiva for his evocative drawing of Byland Abbey which is on the front cover and which Dani drew specifically for this Festschrift. Byland Abbey holds a special place in Janet’s heart and in her research, making this a fitting tribute. We are indebted to William Marx, Our Man in Lampeter, for without his conspiratorial help and support this project would not have been possible. Throughout, William has provided us with the necessary names, facts and figures, and he moreover compiled the list of Janet’s publications – no mean feat. We thank Paul Watkins for the photograph of Janet in the Founders’ Library. Paul managed to dupe Janet into posing for this picture: we commend his guile. Finally, we would like to thank everybody who has helped to keep this project a secret from Janet, allowing us to surprise her with the presentation of this book.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece: Janet Burton Photograph: Paul Watkins.

FIGURE 1 : The foundation history of Forde Abbey as preserved in the early fifteenthcentury genealogy of the Courtenay earls of Devon, now held at Powderham Castle (fol.5v). © Powderham Estate and Exeter Digital Humanities.

FIGURE 2 : The former monastery of Strata Florida (red shading) in its topography looking westwards towards the Irish Sea. With kind permission of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

FIGURE 3 : The Trust,Great Abbey site. Property of the Strata Florida in the darker shade of grey. © David Austin.

FIGURE 4 : What is currently known of the abbey precinct as redesigned in1184and functioning at its height in the thirteenth century. © David Austin.

FIGURE 5 a possible earlier monastery under: Speculative plan of Strata Florida Cistercian Abbey. © David Austin.

FIGURE 6 : Strata Florida House and designed landscape in1765. © David Austin.

FIGURE 7 : Bishop Gilbert of Limerick’sDe statu ecclesiae, Durham Cathedral Library, MS B.II.35, fol.36v. © Durham Cathedral Library.

FIGURE 8 : Rievaulx Abbey, presbytery,c.1220. Photograph: Michael Carter.

FIGURE 9 : Rievaulx Abbey, fragmentary sculpture of Christ in Majesty, c.1260–70. Photograph: Historic England.

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