Medievalists.net » Benedictine http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Identity of the St Bees Lady, Cumbria: An Osteobiographical Approach http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/23/identity-st-bees-lady-cumbria-osteobiographical-approach/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/23/identity-st-bees-lady-cumbria-osteobiographical-approach/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:16:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50605 USING AN OSTEOBIOGRAPHICAL approach, this contribution considers the identity of the woman found alongside the St Bees Man, one of the best-preserved archaeological bodies ever discovered. Osteological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses, combined with the archaeo- logical context of the burial and documented social history, provide the basis for the identifica- tion of a late 14th-century heiress whose activities were at the heart of medieval northern English geopolitics.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/23/identity-st-bees-lady-cumbria-osteobiographical-approach/feed/ 0 Leiðarvísir: Its Genre and Sources, with Particular Reference to the Description of Rome http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/leidarvisir-genre-sources-particular-reference-description-rome/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/leidarvisir-genre-sources-particular-reference-description-rome/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:56:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48946 For the last two centuries, Leiðarvísir has been the subject of great interest by scholars from a variety of disciplines: not only Old Norse scholars, but also historians, geographers, toponymists and scholars of pilgrimage have studied and analysed this work.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/leidarvisir-genre-sources-particular-reference-description-rome/feed/ 0 Elisabeth of Schönau: Visions and Female Intellectual Culture of the High Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/elisabeth-of-schonau-visions-and-female-intellectual-culture-of-the-high-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/elisabeth-of-schonau-visions-and-female-intellectual-culture-of-the-high-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:32:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47075 Elisabeth of Schönau (1128/29-1164/65) was a Rhineland Benedictine who wrote numerous visionary texts. These works addressed local problems in the cloister and community, reform within the Church, and theological questions.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/elisabeth-of-schonau-visions-and-female-intellectual-culture-of-the-high-middle-ages/feed/ 0 A Revival of Female Spirituality: Adaptations of Nuns’ Rules during the Hiberno-Frankish Monastic Movement http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:24:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42789 Before Columbanus, Irish abbots demonstrated little interest in producing monastic rules as we know them from the traditions of Benedict of Nursia and Caesarius of Arles. Preferring instruction by example to any documented tenets, Irish monasticism emphasized the conduct of the founding or ruling abbot or abbess as a model to imitate.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/feed/ 0 To Take Care of the Monks, Take Care of Christina: Christina of Markyate and the Medieval Spiritual/Material Market http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:30:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42323 In this essay I will delineate two of these emphases: (1) Christina’s powerful interaction with boundaries and the spaces they demarcate, and (2) the material/spiritual economy that develops between Christina and Geoffrey, the Abbot of the St. Albans Monastery. I will then argue that these emphases together form a message that might have been aimed at The Life’s monastic (and to some extent aristocratic) audience, perhaps even the abbots who succeeded Geoffrey.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/to-take-care-of-the-monks-take-care-of-christina-christina-of-markyate-and-the-medieval-spiritualmaterial-market/feed/ 0 The speaking cross, the persecuted princess and the murdered earl: the early history of Romsey Abbey http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:27:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39093 The Old-English note may have begun life as an endorsement, either to the grant of privileges or (what is perhaps more likely) to the agreement about the woodland belonging to Romsey, a notice of which has become attached to it; it was not uncommon when diplomas were collected into cartularies for such endorsements to be used as ‘headings’ for the text.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/05/the-speaking-cross-the-persecuted-princess-and-the-murdered-earl-the-early-history-of-romsey-abbey/feed/ 0 The Consuetudines canonice of Lund http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:50:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37486 In this paper we shall deal with the customs in Lund, the so-called Consuetudines canonice.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/04/the-consuetudines-canonice-of-lund/feed/ 0 The Passion of Peter Abelard http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:56:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37408 In the philosophical part of the project we chose not to use Abelardís work Dialogue of the Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian, which explains his views on different religions. Since we decided to use the Letters of Direction in order to get an overview about Abelardís view on Christianity, there appeared to be little need for the aforementioned book.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/the-passion-of-peter-abelard/feed/ 0 Excusing the Inexcusable: Abbots Who Diminish the Patrimony, and the Monks Who Love Them Anyway http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/07/excusing-the-inexcusable-abbots-who-diminish-the-patrimony-and-the-monks-who-love-them-anyway/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/07/excusing-the-inexcusable-abbots-who-diminish-the-patrimony-and-the-monks-who-love-them-anyway/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:37:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36959 This paper was part of the fantastic SESSION IV: Abbots between Ideals and Institutions, 10th–12th Centuries. This paper focused on the writing about abbots during the tumultuous period of Stephen's reign.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/07/excusing-the-inexcusable-abbots-who-diminish-the-patrimony-and-the-monks-who-love-them-anyway/feed/ 0 You Are What You Eat: Hildegard of Bingen’s Viriditas http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/you-are-what-you-eat-hildegard-of-bingens-viriditas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/21/you-are-what-you-eat-hildegard-of-bingens-viriditas/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:13:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36608 Hildegard argues in the beginning of Physica that humans become what they eat.

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