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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West

Editors:
Alison I. Beach, Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto

Alison I. Beach, Isabelle Cochelin, Albrecht Diem, Claudia Rapp, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Michel Kaplan, Anne Boud'Hors, Muriel Debié, Bénédicte Lesieur, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Hendrik Dey, Mariachiara Giorda, Peter Jeffery, David Brakke, Roberto Alciati, Philip Rousseau, Pablo C. Díaz, Eliana Magnani, Sébastien Bully, Eleonora Destefanis, Isabelle Réal, Gordon Blennemann, Lisa Bitel, Michel Lauwers, Felice Lifshitz, Scott Bruce, Valerie Ramseyer, Jesse Billett, Rutger Kramer, John Contreni, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Janneke Raaijmakers, Christopher Andrew Jones, Adam Cohen, Alison Beach, Andra Juganaru, Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Christof Rolker, John Howe, John van Engen, Lauren Mancia, Kathryn L. Jasper, Constant J. Mews, Timothy M. Baker, Beverly Kienzle, Fiona Griffiths, Paulette L'Hermite-Leclercq, Ursula Vones-Liebenstein, Gert Melville, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Constance Berman, Jonathan Lyon, Elma Brenner, Emilia Jamroziak, Colmán Ó Clabaigh, Elisabeth Lusset, Bert Roest, Cécile Caby, Susan Boynton, Eva Schlotheuber, John T. McQuillen, Stefanie Seeberg, Alexandra Gajewski, Megan Cassidy-Welch, Cristina Andenna, Alison More, Anneke Mulder-Bakker, James Clark, Tristan Sharp, Christian Knudsen, Kate E. Bush, Sigrid Hirbodian, Sita Steckel

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Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
- The articles in this volume are pitched at a level appropriate both for graduate students in medieval studies and specialists in various sub-fields
- Offers insights and perspectives from the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, music, theology, literary studies, and others
- Offers a history of monasticism in which women's contributions are integral
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'It is difficult to do justice to this magisterial work and its sixty-four seminal essays. Despite the variety of topics and range of material covered, the work coheres successfully as a whole … what unites the essays and gives it its coherence is the repeated observation that there is no 'grand narrative' or predetermined teleological endpoint in writing such an account of monastic history in the medieval Latin West. So it is the sense of the diversity and disunity of the story that gives the two volumes their strong sense of unity! Yet, it is that very recognition of the variety and creativity among the numerous forms of monastic expressions of spirituality that provides the rich and fascinating stories that the authors uncover in these essays.' Paul Foster, The Expository Times
'Scholars of monastic life, from beginning graduate students to experienced specialists, will do well to turn to these essays - learned, thought-provoking, and methodologically inspiring - as the new starting point for their research.' Walter Simons, Speculum
'… offers a highly stimulating and comprehensive research record on the history of ascetic life in the Middle Ages. In its cross-religious conception, but also in its interdisciplinarity, it differs from other overviews of the history of the order.' Anja Ostrowitzki, Deutsches Archiv fürErforschung des Mittelalters
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Table of Contents
Part I. The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century
Part II. The Carolingians to the Eleventh Century
Part III. The Long Twelfth Century
Part IV. Forms of Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages.
Editors
Alison I. Beach, Ohio State University
Alison I. Beach is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is author of The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany (Cambridge, 2017) and Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Cambridge, 2004).
Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto
Isabelle Cochelin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor of several volumes, most recently From Learning to Love: Schools, Laws, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages (with Tristan Sharp, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Abigail Firey and Giulio Silano, 2017).
Contributors
Alison I. Beach, Isabelle Cochelin, Albrecht Diem, Claudia Rapp, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Michel Kaplan, Anne Boud'Hors, Muriel Debié, Bénédicte Lesieur, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Hendrik Dey, Mariachiara Giorda, Peter Jeffery, David Brakke, Roberto Alciati, Philip Rousseau, Pablo C. Díaz, Eliana Magnani, Sébastien Bully, Eleonora Destefanis, Isabelle Réal, Gordon Blennemann, Lisa Bitel, Michel Lauwers, Felice Lifshitz, Scott Bruce, Valerie Ramseyer, Jesse Billett, Rutger Kramer, John Contreni, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Janneke Raaijmakers, Christopher Andrew Jones, Adam Cohen, Alison Beach, Andra Juganaru, Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Christof Rolker, John Howe, John van Engen, Lauren Mancia, Kathryn L. Jasper, Constant J. Mews, Timothy M. Baker, Beverly Kienzle, Fiona Griffiths, Paulette L'Hermite-Leclercq, Ursula Vones-Liebenstein, Gert Melville, Gisela Muschiol, Hedwig Röckelein, Constance Berman, Jonathan Lyon, Elma Brenner, Emilia Jamroziak, Colmán Ó Clabaigh, Elisabeth Lusset, Bert Roest, Cécile Caby, Susan Boynton, Eva Schlotheuber, John T. McQuillen, Stefanie Seeberg, Alexandra Gajewski, Megan Cassidy-Welch, Cristina Andenna, Alison More, Anneke Mulder-Bakker, James Clark, Tristan Sharp, Christian Knudsen, Kate E. Bush, Sigrid Hirbodian, Sita Steckel