This book is essential reading for both students and scholars of the medieval world. A detailed glossary offers readers a helpful vocabulary of the subject.
We are shown, for instance, the controversy between the Benedictines and the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the problems that confronted women in religious life. In this book many of them, together with their supporters and critics, are presented to us and speak their minds to us. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the social landscape of the West, and their leaders figured as much in the political as on the spiritual map of the medieval world. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them.
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Monasticism and religious orders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500, Monachisme et ordres religieux - Histoire - 600-1500 (Moyen ge), Monasticism and religious orders - Middle Ages, Mnchtum, Westeuropa Publisher London New York : Longman Collection inlibrary printdisabled claremontschooloftheology internetarchivebooks Digitizing.
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