Manuscripts and Monastic Culture
Title | Manuscripts and Monastic Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Alison I. Beach |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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Each of the studies in this volume draws upon a manuscript, or a group of manuscripts, that shed light on the practice of monastic life during this period of reform. Many, but not all, of the papers focus on the monastery of Admont in central Austria. Admont was one of the most important spiritual, cultural, and intellectual centres in the high Middle Ages, and its magnificent library still houses an extensive collection of manuscripts - a rich resource both for the history of the monastery and for the broader history of medieval religious life. The book brings together the work of an international group of scholars whose work touches on various aspects of twelfth-century Admont, and the broader movement for reform and renewal in Germany and Austria. With the publication of Charles Homer Haskin's important work, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1933), came a new way of looking at the civilization of the high Middle Ages. Scholars have since investigated many aspects of this revival: the rise of the universities, the development of canon law, the emergence (or re-emergence) of a heightened sense of human individuality, and the revival of religious fervour that has been labelled a reformation before the Reformation. Much of this scholarly work has focused on north-central Italy, France and England. Germany, however, has been little studied in this context, in part because the nature and trajectory of the reform there differed from that seen elsewhere in Europe. The essays in the book both explore connections between Germanic lands and the wider western European context, and consider the unique spiritual and intellectual climate of Germany's monasteries.
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
Title | Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture PDF eBook |
Author | David Hamidović |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004399291 |
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication. Edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah Bowen Savant, it gathers together the contributions of seventeen scholars involved in Biblical, Early Jewish and Christian studies. The volume attests to the spreading of digital humanities in these fields and presents fundamental analysis of the rise of visual culture as well as specific test-cases concerning ancient manuscripts. Sophisticated visualisation tools, stylometric analysis, teaching and visual data, epigraphy and visualisation belong notably to the varied overview presented in the volume.
The Medieval Manuscript Book
Title | The Medieval Manuscript Book PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Johnston |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-08-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107066190 |
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
Title | Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia PDF eBook |
Author | Felice Lifshitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Monastic and religious life of women |
ISBN | 9780823261420 |
"This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women's books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas)"--
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
Title | The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Homer Haskins |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674760752 |
The European Middle Ages form a complex and varied as well as a very considerable period of human history. Within their thousand years of time they include a large variety of peoples, institutions, and types of culture, illustrating many processes of historical development and containing the origins of many phases of modern civilization. - p. [3].
The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism
Title | The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism PDF eBook |
Author | James G. Clark |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843833215 |
Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery
Title | The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery PDF eBook |
Author | Joann Jovinelly |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2006-08-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781404207592 |
Includes instructions for making a monastery model, an illuminated manuscript, an herb garden, and a plague mask from available materials.