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Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis was the keynote paper given at the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Conference at the University of Toronto April 18 - 21, 2013. -
Reconstruction of the diet in a mediaeval monastic community from the coast of Belgium
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe aim of the present article is to report the results of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis on skeletons from a Belgian mediaeval population, and to look at variations in diet that may relate to age and social status. -
The monastic contribution to mediaeval medical care
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsThe function of hospitals and monasteries was roughly the same. Illness was regarded by most people as a form of divine punishment. The monasteries were founded on private initiative to intercede for the souls of the living and the dead. -
Pilgrimage and Embodiment: Captives and the Cult of Saintsin Late Medieval Bavaria
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsChief among the stories contained in these miracle stories are tales of escapes from captivity. Almost forty percent of the reports in the two Munich Latin miracle collections deal with liberations from imprisonment and escapes from captivity of various sorts. -
Fishing with Monks – Padise Abbey and the River Vantaanjoki from 1351 to 1429
Posted on December 17, 2012 | No CommentsHow did the Cistercian Abbey of Padise in Estonia first come into possession of fishing rights for salmon in the River Vantaanjoki in Finland? -
Queen Ermengarde and the Abbey of St Edward, Balmerino
Posted on October 26, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is an examination of the role played by Alexander's mother, Queen Ermengarde, in the founding of Balmerino. -
Construction Methods and Models of Cistercian Abbeys in North-Western Italy between XII and XIII Century
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsStudies on the so-called bernardine plan (plan bernardin, bernhardinischer Grundtypus), a rigid layout without bending elements (transept with squared chapels on the eastern and western sides, and a rectangular pro- jecting church), and the diffusion of this planning choice in the multiform world of the Cistercian architecture made remarkable progress in recent years, thanks to fine job of collecting and classifying examples of this in different European countries -
Religious Orders and Growth through Cultural Change in Pre-Industrial England
Posted on July 17, 2012 | No CommentsThe central hypothesis advanced in the present study is that the cultural virtues emphasized by Weber had a pre-Reformation origin in the religious Order of the Cistercians, a Catholic order which spread across Europe as of the 11th century, and that this monastic order served to stimulate growth during the second millennium by encouraging cultural change in local populations. -
A View of the Legal Profession from a mid-twelfth-century monastery
Posted on June 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis essay looks back quite a few years-certainly to before the time the living can remember-to the mid-twelfth century, an era that some have marked as the dawn of the modern legal profession in Western European culture. -
The Great Beginning of Cîteaux
Posted on June 11, 2012 | No CommentsIt is a book of history and lore, often with miraculous stories, meant to continue a great spiritual tradition, and it is also a book meant to justify and repair the Order. The Exordium magnum was in part an effort to provide a historical and formative context for those who were to be Cistercians in the thirteenth century. -
Perfect Virgins and Suicidal Maniacs: Monks in Early Thirteenth-Century Pastoralia
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis summary is of a paper that was the last in the English Cistercian series at Kalamazoo. -
Aereld of Rievaulx and the Creation of An Anglo Saxon Past
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper summary is part of a session on English Cistercians and focused on Aelred of Rievaulx and the abbey of Hexum. -
Cistercian Spirituality and Emergence of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Late Middle Ages
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsAlong with the popular devotion to the Virgin Mary, the theme of the 'Coronation of the Virgin' acquired high popularity through the artistic representation of the Virgin. -
Medieval treasures discovered in English abbey
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsAn archaeological investigation at Furness Abbey in northwest England has uncovered the grave of an abbot, which includes an extremely rare medieval silver-gilt crozier and bejewelled ring. -
VAGANTES: Between Tradition and Change: Monastic Reform in Three fifteenth-century German Redactions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Posted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsUsing the life of St. Mary of Egypt, this paper will consider three different Middle High German versions produced by reform communities and will analyze how the reform ideologies and goals manifest in the texts. -
The debate on the Epistolae duorum amantium. Current status
Posted on February 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe methodological questions at stake are much more important and interesting. To quote the initial words of P. von Moos’ monumental article, these documents represent a real challenge for medievalism. -
The medieval monastery as franchise monopolist
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper continues a line of inquiry begun by Ekelund, HCbert and Tollison, (hereafter, E-H-T) which uses the theories of monopoly, rent seeking, and industrial organization to explain the economics of the medieval monastery... -
A Question of Fish: Graduates and their Monasteries in the Middle Ages
Posted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsI would like to contend that the impact of monk graduates upon the shape of medieval monasticism was for most communities very much smaller than historians have tended to suggest. -
Colour in Dore Abbey
Posted on December 4, 2011 | No CommentsModern visitors can touch the furniture, see the kitchens, walk around the hall and guestroom, enjoy live fires (unusual for many children) and even take part in re-enactments that can include the 'King' himself. -
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Furness Abbey and Daughter Houses: Irish Sea Relations in the Twelfth Century
Posted on November 17, 2011 | No CommentsThis paper focused on the daughter houses of Furness Abbey. -
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and his Near Contemporaries
Posted on November 17, 2011 | No CommentsThis paper focuses on the writing of Cistercian Jocelin of Furness. -
New book examines the Cistercians in Wales
Posted on November 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Cistercians in the Middle Ages explores the European context for the emergence of what was very probably the most influential of all the medieval monastic orders. -
The Medieval Cistercians
Posted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsA film about the work of historian Constance Berman on the medieval Cistercians. -
Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines
Posted on September 3, 2011 | No CommentsSisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines Stoner, Abby Ex Post Facto: Journal of the History Students at San Francisco State University, Vol.5:2 (1995) Abstract The Beguines of northern Europe have... -
Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: the Gendering of Geographic Marginalization
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsCistercian Nuns in Medieval England: the Gendering of Geographic Marginalization Freeman, Elizabeth Medieval Feminist Forum, 43, no. 2 (2007) Abstract Medieval monasticism was inherently, unavoidably, and inextricably bound up with...