Monasticism
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Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life - under the aegis of remarkable abbesses - before the Conquest. |
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The quest for spiritual virtue through personal austerity drove many Eastern Christians to lead solitary lives as hermits surviving in the wilderness. Andrew Jotischky describes how indifference to food became an integral part of the monastic ideal in the Byzantine era, one revived in the West in the 11th and 12th centuries. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 4
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Richard Cavendish looks back at the life of a most pious Christian saint. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 4
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Stella Rock sees a renaissance of religious traditions at what was one of Russia’s most vibrant monasteries before the Soviet purge. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 2
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R. E. Foster puts the dissolution of the monasteries into historical context. |
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Julie Kerr looks at the role of hospitality to the Benedictine community between the years 1066 to 1250, and how monks and nuns sought to fulfil their monastic obligations in this respect without impeding their ideals. |
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Michelle Brown, curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library, discusses new interpretations of this treasure, and how this month visitors to the Library will be able to get closer to it than ever before.
Published in History Today, Volume: 53 Issue: 5
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Bernard Hamilton unravels the complex tale of the spread of the Christian faith and its competing hierarchies.
Published in History Today, Volume: 53 Issue: 1
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A Jewish-born Carmelite nun murdered at Auschwitz and due to be canonised by the Pope in October, is claimed to have been betrayed to the Nazis by a high-ranking Benedictine monk. Published in History Today, Volume: 48 Issue: 10
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Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life - under the aegis of remarkable abbesses - before the Conquest. |
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What made medieval monks laugh? Edward Coleman looks at humour, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England. Published in History Today, Volume: 43 Issue: 6
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Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death. Published in History Today, Volume: 38 Issue: 4
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Intellectual sharpness and an aggressive building programme marked the Norman transformation of English monasticism. Published in History Today, Volume: 36 Issue: 3
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The year 1980 is being celebrated throughout the world as the fifteen-hundredth anniversary of the birth of St Benedict, whose rule, explains Henry Loyn, has been the leading inspiration for monastic life in the Western church.
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What did medieval monasteries mean to those living inside them, to those who founded and helped them with gifts or protection, and to those who lived near them? Professor Holdsworth examines these questions in relation to the Cistercian order. Published in History Today, Volume: 30 Issue: 8
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