Abbot Vitalis Of Savigny Abbot Godfrey Of Savigny Peter Of Avranches And Blessed Hamo PDF Download
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Author | : Hugh Feiss |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 087907230X |
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This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries under his successor Godfrey (1122-1138). In 1147, the entire congregation joined the Cistercian Order. Around 1172, two monks of Savigny, Peter of Avranches and Hamo, friends but very different personalities, died. Their stories were told in two further vitae. The vitae of these four men exemplify the variety of people and movements found in the monastic ferment of the twelfth century.
Author | : Gert Melville |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-03-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 087907499X |
Download The World of Medieval Monasticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe’s move toward modernity.
Author | : Abbot William of Andres |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813229995 |
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Translated with Notes and Commentary by Leah Shopkow In 1220 Abbot William of Andres, a monastery halfway between Calais and Saint-Omer on the busy road from London to Paris, sat down to write an ambitious cartulary-chronicle for his monastery. Although his work was unfinished at his death, William’s account is an unpolished gem of medieval historical writing. The Chronicle of Andres details the history of his monastery from its foundation in the late eleventh century through the early part of 1234. Early in the thirteenth century, the monks decided to sue for their freedom and appointed William as their protector. His travels took him on a 4000 km, four-year journey, during which he was befriended by Innocent III, among others, and where he learned to negotiate the labyrinthine system of the ecclesiastical courts. Upon winning his case, he was elected abbot on his return to Andres and enjoyed a flourishing career thereafter. A decade after his victory, William decided to put the history of the monastery on a firm footing. This text not only offers insight into the practice of medieval canon law (from the perspective of a well-informed man with legal training), but also ecclesiastical policies, the dynamics of life within a monastery, ethnicity and linguistic diversity, and rural life. It is comparable in its frankness to Jocelin of Brakelord’s Chronicle of Bury. Because William drew on the historiographic tradition of the Southern Low Countries, his text also offers some insights into this subject, thus composing a broad picture of the medieval European monastic world.
Author | : Leah Shopkow |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487538235 |
Download The Saint and the Count Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While historians know that history is about interpreting primary sources, students tend to think of history as a set of facts. In The Saint and the Count, Leah Shopkow opens up the interpretive world of the historian using the biography of St. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) as a case study. This biography was written around 1174 by Stephen of Fougères and provides a rich stage to demonstrate the kinds of questions historians ask about primary sources and the interpretive and conceptual frameworks they use. What is the nature of medieval sources and what are the interpretive problems they present? How does the positionality of Stephen of Fougères shape his biography of St. Vitalis? How did medieval people respond to stories of miracles? And finally, how does this biography illuminate the problem of violence in medieval society? A translation of the biography is included, so that readers can explore the text on their own.
Author | : Hugh B. Feiss |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0879071753 |
Download A Benedictine Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Benedictine Reader, 530–1530, has been more than twenty years in the making. A collaboration of a dozen scholars, this project gives as broad and deep a sense of the reality of the first one thousand years of Benedictine monasticism as can be done in one volume, using primary sources in English translation. The texts included are drawn from many different genres and from several languages and areas of Europe. The introduction to each of the thirty-two chapters aims to situate each author and text and to make connections with other texts and studies within and outside the Reader. The general introduction summarizes the main ideas and practices that are present in the Rule of Saint Benedict and in the first thousand years of Benedictine monasticism while suggesting questions that a reader might bring to the texts.
Author | : Alison I. Beach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-01-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1108770630 |
Download The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
Author | : Caesarius of Heisterbach |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2023-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0879072148 |
Download The Dialogue on Miracles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Caesarius was a monk at the Cistercian monastery of Heisterbach in Germany, where he served as Master of novices. For their instruction and edification, he composed his lengthy Dialogue on Miracles in twelve sections between 1219 and 1223. The many surviving manuscripts of this and other works by Caesarius attest to his stature in the history of Cistercian letters. This volume contains sections one through six of Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogue on Miracles, the first complete translation into English of an influential representation of exempla literature from the Middle Ages. Caesarius’s stories provide a splendid index to monastic life, religious practices, and daily life in a tumultuous time.
Author | : Great Britain. Exchequer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniæ sub regibus Angliæ Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Daniel Power |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2004-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521571723 |
Download The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The twelfth-century borderlands of the duchy of Normandy formed the cockpit for dynastic rivalries between the kings of England and France. This 2004 book examines how the political divisions between Normandy and its neighbours shaped the communities of the Norman frontier. It traces the region's history from the conquest of Normandy in 1106 by Henry I of England, to the duchy's annexation in 1204 by the king of France, Philip Augustus, and its incorporation into the Capetian kingdom. It explores the impact of the frontier upon princely and ecclesiastical power structures, customary laws, and noble strategies such as marriage, patronage and suretyship. Particular attention is paid to the lesser aristocracy as well as the better known magnates, and an extended appendix reconstructs the genealogies of thirty-three prominent frontier lineages. The book sheds light upon the twelfth-century French aristocracy, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval political frontiers.
Author | : James Robinson Planché |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Personal and domestic history of William the Conqueror, &c.