..., 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 . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a Monasticism...

...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...

..., and the environments in which each wrote facilitates a deeper understanding of the campaigns to manage and reform female monasticism in Spain and England. But it also invites a consideration of what a transnational examination of these questions might add to our understanding of female monasticism that has, until...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman Mourning the death of a friend posed a problem for late Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Newly reformed under the authority of the Benedictine Rule and the Regularis Concordia , religious were precluded from developing personal friendships so as to protect a world in which all things...

...Joshua Phillips The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s had significant effects on Tudor England, transforming traditional understandings of work and religious devotion. This article examines three elements of social life, associated with monasticism, that were drastically...

... those questions the author examines the special character and critical tensions of Carolingian monasticism and why the monk chose the lives and sayings of the desert fathers to copy while on campaign. From a single sentence in an obscure manuscript, a world of associations and connections opens...

... University 351 Trent Hall Box 90656 Durham, NC 27708 [email protected] httpmedren.aas.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41:2, Spring 2011 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1218388  © 2011 by Duke University Press Monasticisms...

... 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...

... in the study of premodern Western culture. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2011 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...

... in the Sixteenth Century  421 – 459 Simpson, James The Reformation of Scholarship: A Reply to Debora Shuger  249 – 268 Walker, Claire Crumbs of News: Early Modern English Nuns and Royalist Intelligence Networks  635 – 655 Warren, Nancy Bradley Monasticisms Medieval and Early Modern  511 – 517...

... utopian desert monasticism. Following his example, early Christian ascetics lived in an exilic isolation that presented a profound contrast to the world of locative sacred order, though some — like Simon Stylites who dwelt in tangible isolation on a pillar situated on the busy road to Antioch...

... with a Frankish army in the region of Pannonia in the early ninth century. As a result of Dutton’s untiring contextualization, drawing on a profound knowledge of the age, he lays out for us a startling vision of Carolingian monasticism. Although the links in the chain of his reasoning are joined more...

... Transvestite in Early Monasticism: The Origin and Development of a Motif,” Viator 5 (1974): 1–32; and many other studies, most recently Stephen J. Davis, “Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men,” Journal of Early Chris...

... of the desert fathers? Could his choice say some- thing significant about the scribe, his monastery, and perhaps even the world of Carolingian monasticism? The manuscript’s scribe, Dutton shows us, was Ellenhart, a deacon and monk at the Benedictine monastery of St-­Emmeram in Regensburg. Bringing...

... to early Christian monasticism and the Platonic Christianity of Clement of Alexandria. Indeed, if we want to understand why attention is a crucial but for the most part latent ideal dur- ing the later history of Christianity, and why it gains a new significance after the Reformation, we need...

... in an Erasmian spirit that honors both marriage and monasticism as virtue-affirming forms of life. I end by considering the virtue of magnanimity in Shakespeare and Erasmus. In As You Like It , Shakespeare freely combines Erasmian, Pythagorean, and Orphic motifs in his staging of ecosociability as an ecology...

... the nature of Carolingian monasticism, its tensions and character. Scholars have been reluctant to deal with the difficulties and particular nature of Carolingian monastic culture. But was Ellenhart even aware of such tensions? And how does his one-­sentence colophon tell us anything about...

... the character of Anglo-Saxon monasticism and by what we know about crosses that were sited in locations that were not in the strict sense monastic.88 It may now be possible to fine- tune that revision. Orton / Northumbrian Identity 133 We know from Bede’s...

... but active: an “ability, potentiality, power — a Christian virtue developed through discipline.”8 In the earlier instantiations of monasticism studied by Appleford / Asceticism, Dissent, and the Tudor State  383 Asad, the monastic “rule” (typically the Benedictine Rule...

... in Early Christian Egypt,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 1 (1993): 281–96; repr. in Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism , ed. James E. Goehring (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press, 1999), 73– 88. 15Bermingham, Landscape and Ideolog y , 3. 16The...