The Religious Orders in England - Couverture rigide

Knowles, Dom David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521054826 ISBN 13 : 9780521054829

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1979

Synopsis

Dom David Knowles surveys the monastic life and activities in the early Tudor period.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume opens with a survey of monastic life and activities in the early Tudor period, which throws new light on the fortunes of the Cistercian abbeys and on the influence upon the monks of the new humanist education. Chapters are devoted to Bishop Redman's visitations of the white canons, to the rural pursuits of Prior More of Worcester, to the friars ranged for and against the New Learning, and to the Carthusians; there are also a number of character sketches of notable abbots and others. There follows a review of the changing religious climate: of Wolsey's attempts at reform, of the all-perspective influence of Erasmus and of the career of Elizabeth Barton. The economic state of the monasteries is discussed as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression, illuminated by rare gleams of heroism. The fate and after-careers of the religious are treated in full from the record sources; there are chapters on the aftermath in Mary's reign and the linking with modern Benedictines, and an epilogue looks back over six centuries of English monasticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521054826
• ISBN 13: 9780521054829
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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