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25 results in Studies in the History of Medieval Religion

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Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century
  • The Dispute between the Monks and the Archbishops, 1184-1200
  • James Barnaby
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    21 May 2024
  • Documents a long-running dispute between the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s.

Thomas of Eccleston's De adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam 'The Arrival of the Franciscans in England', 1224-c. 1257/8

The Papacy and Ecclesiology of Honorius II (1124-1130)
  • Church Governance after the Concordat of Worms
  • Enrico Veneziani
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    07 March 2023
  • A complete reappraisal of the papacy of Honorius II, highlighting the strategies to which this pontificate turned in order to govern ecclesiastical institutions and to deal with secular matters.

Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c.1000-1500
  • Debating Identities, Creating Communities
  • Edited by Julie Hotchin, Jirki Thibaut
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    04 April 2023
  • New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.

Medieval Women Religious, c.800-c.1500
  • New Perspectives
  • Edited by Kimm Curran, Janet Burton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    24 January 2023
  • A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.

Leper Knights
  • The Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, c.1150-1544
  • David Marcombe
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 March 2023
    Print publication:
    06 April 2003
  • An illustrated history of the English branch of the Order of St Lazarus, founded to care for lepers and send leper knights to the Crusades.

Inward Purity and Outward Splendour
  • Death and Remembrance in the Deanery of Dunwich, Suffolk, 1370-1547
  • Judith Middleton-Stewart
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 July 2001
  • A record of material and spiritual gifts to churches, compiled from 3000 wills made over 180 years.

The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism
  • Edited by James G. Clark
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 September 2007
  • Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution.

Jocelin of Wells
  • Bishop, Builder, Courtier
  • Edited by Robert Dunning
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 July 2010
  • The life and career of Jocelin of Wells examined, with a particular emphasis on his role in the reconstruction of the Cathedral and Bishop's Palace.

Pope Gregory X and the Crusades

A History of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, 1257-1301
  • Simon of Luton and John of Northwold
  • Antonia Gransden
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    22 February 2023
    Print publication:
    21 May 2015
  • Completes what will become the definitive history of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds in the thirteenth century.

The Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. 1020-1300

King John and Religion
  • Paul Webster
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    18 June 2015
  • A study of the personal religion of King John, presenting a more complex picture of his actions and attitude.

The Church and Vale of Evesham, 700-1215
  • Lordship, Landscape and Prayer
  • David Cox
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • Provides a fine contribution to the rich history of the region, showing Evesham's place in the life of the medieval kingdom of England. Professor Ann Williams.

    In c.701, a minster was founded in the lower Avon Valley on a deserted promontory called Evesham. Over the next five hundred years it became a Benedictine abbey and turned the Vale of Evesham into a federation of Christian communities. A landscape of scattered farms grew into one of open fields and villages, manor houses and chapels. Evesham itself developed into a town, and the abbots played a role in the affairs of the kingdom. But individual contemplation and prayer within the abbey were compromised by its corporate aspirations. As Evesham abbey waxed ever grander, exerting a national influence, it became a ready patron of the arts but had less time for private spirituality. The story ends badly in the prolonged scandal of Abbot Norreis, a libertine whose appetites caused religion to collapse at Evesham before his own sudden downfall.
    This book integrates the evidence of archaeology, maps, and documents in a continuous narrative that pays as much attention to religious and cultural life as to institutional and economic matters. It provides a complete survey over one of the most important and wealthy Benedictine abbeys and its landscape, a stage on which was enacted the tense interplay of lordship andprayer.

    Dr David Cox, FSA, was until his retirement county editor of the Victoria History of Shropshire and lecturer at Keele University.

St Stephen s College Westminster
  • A Royal Chapel and English Kingship, 1348–1548
  • Elizabeth Biggs
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 April 2020
    Print publication:
    17 April 2020
  • First full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages.

Apostate Nuns in the Later Middle Ages

The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem
  • with an Edition and Translation of the Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae (BAV Reg. Lat. 712)
  • Volume 48
  • Eivor Andersen Oftestad
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    31 August 2019
    Print publication:
    15 March 2019
  • An examination of the tradition exists that the Ark of the Covenant was held in a Roman church, and how it developed.

The Friaries of Medieval London
  • From Foundation to Dissolution
  • Nick Holder
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 May 2018
    Print publication:
    31 October 2017
  • The friaries of medieval London formed an important part of the city's physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These urban monasteries housed 300 or more preacher-monks who lived an enclosed religious life and went out into the city to preach. The most important orders were the Dominican Black friars and the Franciscan Grey friars but London also had houses of Augustine, Carmelite and Crossed friars, and, in the thirteenth century, Sack and Pied friars. This book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses, combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing and describing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts with burial grounds and gardens, it moves on to examine more general historical themes, including the spiritual life of the friars, their links to living and dead Londoners, and the role of the urban monastery. The closure of these friaries in the 1530s is also discussed, along with a brief revival of one friary in the reign of Mary. Dr Nick Holder is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

The Foundations of Medieval English Ecclesiastical History
  • Studies Presented to David Smith
  • With contributions by Julia Barrow , Nicholas Bennett , Janet Burton , Charles Fonge , Christopher Harper-Bill , R. H. Helmholz , B. R. Kemp , F. Donald Logan , Alison McHardy , Jane Sayers and Christopher C. Webb
  • Edited by Christopher Brooke, Barrie Dobson, Philippa Hoskin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2017
    Print publication:
    10 November 2005
  • The work of historians in providing new editions of primary documents, and other aids to research, has tended to go largely unsung, yet is crucial to scholarship, as providing the very foundations on which further enquiry can be based. The essays in this volume, conversely, celebrate the achievements in this field by a whole generation of medievalists, of whom the honoree, David Smith, is one of the most distinguished. They demonstrate the importance of such editions to a proper understanding and elucidation of a number of problems in medieval ecclesiastical history, ranging from thirteenth-century forgery to diocesan administration, from the church courts to the cloisters, and from the English parish clergy to the papacy. Contributors: CHRISTOPHER BROOKE, C.C. WEBB, JULIA BARROW, NICHOLAS BENNETT, JANET BURTON, CHARLES FONGE, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, R.H. HELMHOLZ, PHILIPPA HOSKIN, BRIAN KEMP, F. DONALD LOGAN, ALISON MCHARDY

Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages
  • With contributions by Andrew Abram , Colmán Clabaigh , James G. Clark , Glyn Coppack , Claire Cross , Kimm Curran , Martin Heale , Michael Hicks , Emilia Jamroziak , Julie Kerr , Nicholas Orme , Jens U. Rohrkasten , Karen Stober and Sheila Sweetinburgh
  • Edited by Janet Burton, Karen Stober
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2017
    Print publication:
    17 July 2008
  • In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its fifteen chapters assess diverse aspects of monastic history, focusing on the wide range of contacts which existed between religious communities and the laity in the later medieval British Isles, covering a range of different religious orders and houses. This period has often been considered to represent a general decline of the regular life; but on the contrary, the essays here demonstrate that there remained a rich monastic culture which, although different from that of earlier centuries, remained vibrant.

    CONTRIBUTORS: KAREN STOBER, JULIE KERR, EMILIA JAMROZIAK, MARTIN HEALE, COLMAN O CLABAIGH, ANDREW ABRAM, MICHAEL HICKS, JANET BURTON, KIMM PERKINS-CURRAN, JAMES CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, JENS ROHRKASTEN, SHEILA SWEETINBURGH, NICHOLAS ORME, CLAIRE CROSS

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