Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order, C. 1130-c. 1300
Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order, C. 1130-c. 1300

Author: Brian Golding

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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This is the first full scholarly study since 1902 of the Gilbertine order and its founder, St. Gilbert of Sempringham. The Gilbertines were the only native English monastic order, and highly unusual in their provision for both nuns and canons. Brian Golding provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the history of the order from its mid-twelfth-century origins up to the early fourteenth century. He examines the life of St. Gilbert and sets it within the context of twelfth-century monastic reform. His detailed analysis of the economy of the Gilbertines reveals much about monastic revenue and organization, and about relations with the lay community. Golding shows that by 1300 the Gilbertine experiment was largely dead. The founding ideals of a structure in which men and women could live in harmony and order had given way to male domination and the marginalization of the nuns.

The Abbot and the Rule
The Abbot and the Rule

Author: Michelle Still

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1351895303

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St Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.

Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs
Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs

Author: Hugh M. Thomas

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1512807885

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In recent decades, works of the gentry have revolutionized out understanding of late medieval and early modern England. In Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs, Hugh M. Thomas takes the study of the gentry back to the period 1154-1216. His conclusions not only reveal remarkable similarities between the gentry of various periods but also shed light on the massive changes that transformed England in the Angevin Period.

The High Middle Ages in England 1154-1377
The High Middle Ages in England 1154-1377

Author: Bertie Wilkinson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1978-06-22

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780521217323

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"All aspects of England in the High Middle Ages are covered, including sections on social, economic, religious, military, intellectual and art history, as well as on political and constitutional history."--Publisher description.