Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order c.1130-c.1300

Brian (Senior Lecturer in History Golding

ISBN 10: 0198200609 / ISBN 13: 9780198200604

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1995

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is the first detailed study of the Gilbertines, the only native monastic order to be established in medieval England, and highly unusual in its provision for both nuns and canons. Brian Golding provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the history of the Order from its mid-twelfth century origins up to the early fourteenth century. This stimulating and informative study will be essential reading for all historians of medieval monasticism, especially thoseinterested in the lives of medieval women.

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• Titre: Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order c.1130-c.1300
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198200609
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198200604
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 243 L x 164 H x 34 P (en millimètres) 243 millimètres de largeur par 164 millimètres de hauteur par 34 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 890 grammes

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Synopsis

One of the most striking features of the twelfth-century Church was the growing desire of women for a greater role in the monastic life. Contemporary monastic reformers responded to his demand in various ways: some focused their appeal on women, others actively discouraged all contact; but all were agreed on the need to regularise religious life for women. In England this phenomenon is most clearly seen in the emergence of the Gilbertine order, founded by the Lincolnshire priest, Gilbert of Sempringham. The Gilbertines were the only native monastic order in medieval England, and were highly unusual in their provision for both nuns and canons. In the first full-scale study since 1902, Brian Golding provides a comprehensive account of the history of the order from its mid-twelfth century origins up to the early fourteenth century. His detailed analysis of the economy of the Gilbertines reveals much about monastic revenue and organization, and about the order's relations with their lay patrons and benefactors.

Dr Golding goes on to show that by 1300 the Gilbertine experiment was largely dead. The founding ideals of a structure in which men and women could live in harmony and order had given way to male domination and the marginalization of the nuns. This stimulating and informative study will be essential reading for all historians of medieval monasticism.