I 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
December 4, 2011 By
Modern 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
November 17, 2011 By
This paper focused on the daughter houses of Furness Abbey.
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and his Near Contemporaries
November 17, 2011 By
This paper focuses on the writing of Cistercian Jocelin of Furness.
New book examines the Cistercians in Wales
November 8, 2011 By
The 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
November 4, 2011 By
A film about the work of historian Constance Berman on the medieval Cistercians.
Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines
September 3, 2011 By
Sisters 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 been called the first women’s movement in Christian history. This group of religiously dedicated laywomen, who took no permanent vows, followed no prescribed rule, supported themselves […]
Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: the Gendering of Geographic Marginalization
September 2, 2011 By
Cistercian 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 practicalities and concepts of space. A monastery needed a grant of land in order to exist in the first place. The very word “locus” often […]
The Age of Stone: Just how old are the oldest relics of stone architecture in Poland?
July 7, 2011 By
Using state-of-the-art dating methods, Polish researchers have solved the longstanding riddle of when the monumental constructions of medieval Poland were erected.
Monastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de Sigena
May 25, 2011 By
Monastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de Sigena By Eileen Patricia McKiernan González PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2005 Abstract: Power, piety, and remembrance came together in the artistic patronage of two Iberian queens at the end of the […]
Joachimite apocalypticism, Cistercian mysticism and the sense of disintegration in Perlesvaus and The queste del saint Graal
May 22, 2011 By
Joachimite apocalypticism, Cistercian mysticism and the sense of disintegration inPerlesvaus and The queste del saint Graal O’Hagan, Michael PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia (1983) Abstract The two early thirteenth-century romances Perlesvaus and the Queste del saint Graal are strongly influenced by particular theological doctrines. The primary influence on Perlesvaus is apocalyptic: not only does […]
Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study
May 22, 2011 By
Isaac of Stella, the Cistercians and the Thomas Becket Controversy: A Bibliographical and Contextual Study By Travis D. Stolz PhD Dissertation, Marquette University, 2010 Abstract: Isaac of Stella (ca. 1100-ca. 1169), an English-born Cistercian and abbot, has been dwarfed by Bernard of Clairvaux and other of his twelfth-century Cistercian contemporaries in terms of literary output and […]
The charterhouse of Nonenque: a discussion of an existing medieval nunnery in the context of Carthusian architecture
April 10, 2011 By
The charterhouse of Nonenque: a discussion of an existing medieval nunnery in the context of Carthusian architecture Steyn, Carol South African Journal of Art History, vol. 21, no.1 (2006) Abstract The Charterhouse of Nonenque is one of the few remaining charterhouses for nuns in the world. It was built in the 12th century as a […]
Opposing Identity: Muslims, Christians and the Military Orders in Rural Aragon
March 21, 2011 By
Opposing Identity: Muslims, Christians and the Military Orders in Rural Aragon Gerrard, Christopher Medieval Archaeology, Vol.43 (2000) Abstract This paper addresses the issue of identity among Christian and Muslim groups in medieval Spain after the Reconquest in the 12th century. A wide variety of archaeological evidence, including artefacts, graffiti, settlement morphology and standing buildings, demonstrates that ethnic and […]
Eleven years of archaeological research at Rushen Abbey, 1998 to 2008
March 13, 2011 By
Eleven years of archaeological research at Rushen Abbey, 1998 to 2008 Davey, Peter J.. Monastic Research Bulletin vol. 14 (2008) Abstract Man lies in the northern Irish Sea almost equidistant from Cumbria, Galloway and Ulster and only slightly further from Anglesey in North Wales. In the early Middle Ages it had developed an almost legendary […]
New Light on the Economic Practices of Cistercian Women’s Communities
February 24, 2011 By
New Light on the Economic Practices of Cistercian Women’s Communities By Constance H. Berman Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol. 41 (2006) Introduction: One reason for some of the confusion about women’s relative power in the early versus the later middle ages has had to do with unevenness in the publication of medieval of medieval documents. Within […]
An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy
January 9, 2011 By
An Essay on Cistercian Liturgy Kerr, Julie Cistercians in Yorkshire, University of Sheffield (2004) Abstract Concerning the mode and order of Divine services, the monks of Cîteaux decided right at the beginning to observe in everything the traditions of the Rule, cutting away entirely and rejecting all appendages to the psalms, orations and litanies, which were […]
Men’s Houses, Women’s Houses: The Relationship between the Sexes in Twelfth Century Monasticism
December 9, 2010 By
Men’s Houses, Women’s Houses: The Relationship between the Sexes in Twelfth Century Monasticism By Constance H. Berman The Medieval Monastery, edited by Andrew MacLeish (St Cloud, MN, 1988) Introduction: It goes without saying that there was a relationship between the sexes in most parts of twelfth-century life, but it is generally assumed that the Church, and […]
The Animal Remains found at Kirkstall Abbey
January 13, 2010 By
The Animal Remains found at Kirkstall Abbey Ryder, M. L Agricultural History Review,Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract The use of archaeology as an approach to the medieval period is fairly recent: where records and ruins existed it was not considered possible to add to our knowledge by excavation. The falseness of this assumption has […]
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