... of England. a The Effects of Exile on English Monastic Spirituality: William Peryn’s Spirituall Exercyses Mary C. Erler Fordham University...

... vocation. The second analyzes the role of the state in setting elaborate, strictly gendered guidelines for monastic reform. Talavera understood female monasticism through the particu- lar lens of his own monastic, and specifically Jeronimite, vocation. Before becoming bishop of Avila, he had...

... of traditional Benedictine monasticism, see John van Engen, “The ‘Cri- sis of Cenobitism’ Reconsidered: Benedictine Monasticism in the Years – Speculum no.  –  On the portal as monastic self- representation, see Low, “Enlivening Scripture,” –  Concerning the reformist tenor...

...Virginia Blanton-Whetsell © by Duke University Press 2002 a Tota integra, tota incorrupta: The Shrine of St. Æthelthryth as Symbol of Monastic Autonomy...

...David Brakke © by Duke University Press 2003 The Lady Appears: Materializations of “Woman” in Early Monastic Literature David Brakke Indiana...

...Nancy Bradley Warren The very word monasticism brings to mind images of walls and enclosures, suggests qualities of isolation and separation. As recent work on both medieval and early modern monastic foundations has demonstrated, though, the convent wall was actually quite permeable...

..., for instituting a notion of friendship that hesitatingly breaks with the preexisting historical- ­theological institutions of caritas and amicitia. Monastic friendship It is important to mention at the start that several recent studies of gen- der and sexuality in Anglo-­Saxon monasticism have shed...

... nuns provide another instance of the divergence between ideal and reality in medieval monasticism, especially as it pertained to religious women.13 However, there is no indication in the documents of practice that the nuns who left their cloister to attend to monastic business were perceived...

..., and Gillespie, among others, have done much to turn our attention to monastic ruins and the nostalgia they some- times engendered, I see a larger and more pervasive role of monasticism in post-Reformation­ England.10 Monks did not “slide off” the agenda of sati- rists and propagandists; they remained...

...Debora Shuger The three volumes of Little Gidding Story Books—the first published in 1899, the last in 1970—are based on shorthand transcripts of the informal seminars held on feast days during the early 1630s by members of a quasi-monastic extended family, most of them young women. The discussions...

...-negation, teaching the householder monastic ascetic practices that emphasize rejection of the world and direct obedience to God. Together the manuals, which circulated widely during England's violent 1530s, work to interrupt the absorption of the Christian pastorate by secular state power. They do...

...” of an unknown Northumbrian monastic community), as a window into the ways in which early medieval people saw their natural world not as a passive space for human activity, but as an active participant in religious life. This reading comports with ecocritical interpretations of Æthelwulf’s poem alongside...

...Jaime Goodrich This essay considers how two Benedictine writers, Claude Estiennot (1639–1699) and Anne Neville (1605–1689), engaged with the generic conventions of historical writing, specifically the subgenre of monastic history. In an attempt to complicate critical narratives about early modern...

... of hierarchy with its political edge often dominates understanding of the notion, but such critique stems from medieval controversies over religious perfection and sacramental life, which in turn echo the monastic polemics of Pseudo‐Dionysius, the probable inventor of the term hierarchy . The massive influence...

... Medieval and Early Modern Edited by Nancy Bradley Warren Volume 42 / Number 3 / Fall 2012 The very word monasticism brings to mind images of walls and enclosures, suggests qualities of isolation and separation. As recent work on both medi- eval and early modern monastic foundations has demonstrated...

... Monasticisms Medieval and Early Modern Edited by Nancy Bradley Warren Volume 42 / Number 3 / Fall 2012 The very word monasticism brings to mind images of walls and enclosures, suggests qualities of isolation and separation. As recent work on both medi- eval and early modern monastic foundations has...

... that considers early modern English monastic communities in their Continental environments. We wish to bring together the work of historians, art histori- ans, and scholars of literature in order to consider the topic of monasticism through the lenses of material culture, visual culture, textual culture...

..., caught as he was between two worlds in 819. Thus, the first of our chosen paths (the colophon) will take us to the friction-­fed fire smolder- ing at the heart of Carolingian monasticism, and the second (the set of texts) to its desert dream of monastic purity and perfection. In an important...

..., Richard Rolle, as well as to materials from vernacular traditions — the keeping of spiritual diaries promoted by the Devotio Moderna and the English text of The Cloud of Unknowing . a Monasticism and the Public...

...” to the Annotations to the New Testament in Context  365 – 394 Cornett, Michael New Books across the Disciplines  225 – 244, 487 – 506, 725 – 744 Erler, Mary C. The Effects of Exile on English Monastic Spirituality: William Peryn’s Spirituall Exercyses  519 – 537 Journal...