Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles - Essays in Honour of Janet Burton — Essays in Honour of Janet Burton

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol o erthyglau sy'n deyrnged i'r Athro Janet Burton, ac yn ddathliad o'i chyfraniad nodedig i ysgolheictod, yn benodol ei hastudiaeth o fynachaeth yng ngogledd Lloegr ac yng Nghymru, profiadau lleianod a gweithgaredd mynachod yn cadw cofnodion ac yn ysgrifennu hanes.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Burton celebrates her remarkable contribution to monastic scholarship, in particular her work on monasticism in the North of England and Wales, nuns and their experience, and monastic record-keeping and history writing.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations List of contributors Introduction Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain 1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark 2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries - Martin Heale 3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh 4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David Austin Part II: Religious and laity 5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050–1230 - Edel Bhreathnach 6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1539 - Michael Carter 7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross 8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Dramatisation of Xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton 9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin 10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew Prescott Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world 11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls - Kimm Curran 12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding 13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records - Veronica O'Mara Bibliography of Janet Burton's publications Abbreviations to the index Index Tabula Gratulatoria

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Emilia Jamroziak is Professor of Medieval Religious History and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Karen Stöber is a Researcher and Lecturer at Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia. Julie Kerr was researcher on the Monastic Wales and the Cistercians in Yorkshire projects.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

• This festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Burton celebrates her remarkable contribution to monastic scholarship, in particular her work on monasticism in the North of England and Wales, nuns and their experience, and monastic record-keeping and history writing. • It represents original work on religious life in the British Isles, covering the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. • The collection is interdisciplinary in nature – historical, art historical and archaeological.