Religious Orders Volume 2: End of Middle Ages - Brossura

Knowles, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052129567X ISBN 13: 9780521295673

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This book covers a period (1336–1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the Conciliar Movement. David Knowles devotes part of his book to narrative, and part to analysis. The great abbeys are at their height of outward splendour, we see the building schemes of Ely and Glouster, the impact of the Black Death, and the recovery from it; we see the monks and friars in controversy at Oxford, the attacks of Wyclif and the Lollards, helped by the satire of the poets; the conservative reaction, and the foundations and reforms of Henry V, followed by the Indian summer of the feudal aristocracy.

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This book covers a period (1336–1485) neglected by historians, when many features of the modern world were germinating under the surface of medieval institutions: the age of Chaucer, Langland, Bradwardine and Wyclif, of the new Nominalism and the Conciliar Movement. David Knowles devotes part of his book to narrative, and part to analysis.

Contenuti:

Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. The Historical Framework: 1. The opening of the period; 2. Monks and canons at the university, 1300–1450; 3. Patrons and architects: Ely and Glouster; 4. Portraits of monks; 5. Monks and friars in controversy; 6. Trends in speculation: Ockhamism, justification and grace; 7. Criticism of the religious in the fourteenth century; 8. The spiritual life of the fourteenth century; 9. Developments within the orders: I; 10. Developments within the orders: II; 11. The fortunes of the Cluniac houses and the alien priories; 12. The loosening of discipline; 13. King Henry V; 14. More portraits of monks; 15. The second century of visitation, 1350–1450; 16. The spiritual life of the fifteenth century; Part II. The Institutional Background: 17. Recruitment, employment and the horarium; 18. The wage-system and the common life; 19. The election and privileges of the superior; 20. The numbers of the religious; 21. Literary work; 22. The monasteries and society; 23. Vicarages, the core of souls and schools; 24. Public obligations of heads of houses; 25. The monastic economy, 1320–1480; 26. Monastic libraries; 27. Retrospect; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052129567X
• ISBN 13: 9780521295673
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 420