Medievalists.net » St. Benedict of Nursia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 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 The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/16/the-kingdom-of-leon-castilla-under-king-alfonso-vi-1065-1109/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/16/the-kingdom-of-leon-castilla-under-king-alfonso-vi-1065-1109/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:54:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28623 The reign of Alfonso VI was also to be the setting within which León-Castilla joined in the emergence of a new western Europe and itself also assimilated the new norms and structures that were being erected everywhere there.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/16/the-kingdom-of-leon-castilla-under-king-alfonso-vi-1065-1109/feed/ 0 The Benedictine Centuries: Monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-1066 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:45:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=28378 This synopsis of the type of person who became a Benedictine monk reflects the welcoming attitude that St Benedict hoped to give to the rule for monastic living that now bears his name. It also reflects the variety of people who came into a life of monasticism in England during the Anglo-Saxon period of 597-1066. These people were drawn to the simple spiritual life formed by St Benedict of Nursia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/01/04/the-benedictine-centuries-monasticism-in-anglo-saxon-england-597-1066/feed/ 0 The monastic response to Papal reform: Summi Magistri and it reception http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:17:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27688 This is a question which has dogged the history of the interaction between Rome and the Black monks, and it brings a second question in its wake - what were the medieval Popes trying to do with monasticism?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/04/the-monastic-response-to-papal-reform-summi-magistri-and-it-reception/feed/ 0 St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/23/st-benedict-of-nursia-the-birth-of-western-monasticism/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/23/st-benedict-of-nursia-the-birth-of-western-monasticism/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:14:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26596 St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism Steele, Helen Published Online, Guernicus.com (2006) Abstract St Benedict of Nursia was the founder of western monasticism and an important figure in the early medieval church. Eschewing the dissolute lifestyle of Rome, he became an ascetic hermit, and then as others began to flock to him, he […]

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