This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. This festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students, and friends who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work, in homage to the transformative contribution that she has made to medieval monastic studies.
Author(s): Karen Stober, Emilia Jamroziak, Julie Kerr
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: Cardiff
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain
Chapter 1: Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond
Chapter 2: ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries
Chapter 3: Formed by word and example: the training of novices in fourteenth-century Dublin
Chapter 4: Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future
Part II: Religious and laity
Chapter 5: The world of bishops in religious orders in medieval Ireland, 1050–1230
Chapter 6: Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1538
Chapter 7: The last days of Bridlington Priory
Chapter 8: Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s dramatisation of xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo
Chapter 9: The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese
Chapter 10: The abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English rising of 1381
Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world
Chapter 11: Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls
Chapter 12: ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity
Chapter 13: Preaching to nuns in the Norwich diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records
Select Bibliography
Bibliography of Janet Burton’s publications
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria
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