Items related to The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans,...

The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans, 1290–1349 (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West) - Hardcover

Book 25 of 41: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West

Still, Michelle

 
9780754605218: The Abbot and the Rule: Religious Life at St Albans, 1290–1349 (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754605213 ISBN 13: 9780754605218
Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

St Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Michelle Still

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754605213
ISBN 13 
9780754605218
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
360