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A monastic renaissance at St. Albans : Thomas Walsingham and his circle, c. 1350-1440
- Title
- A monastic renaissance at St. Albans : Thomas Walsingham and his circle, c. 1350-1440 / James G. Clark.
- Author
- Clark, James G.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 316 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "A Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans is a study of intellectual life at the Abbey of St. Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c. 1340-1422), one of the most prolific scholars of the later middle ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell into decline long before the dissolution and that cultural and intellectual activities were largely abandoned as the monks surrendered themselves to high living and low morals. This study challenges this view. Drawing on a wide variety of manuscript sources, it shows that education, independent study, and even the co-ordinated copying of books continued to flourish at St. Albans (and its affiliate houses) for much of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In fact the abbey emerged as one of the country's most influential centres of learning, a clearing-house for books and ideas in Ricardian and Lancastrian England."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Oxford historical monographs
- Uniform Title
- Oxford historical monographs
- Subject
- Walsingham, Thomas, active 1360-1420
- Walsingham, Thomas, active 1360-1420 > Friends and associates
- Walsingham, Thomas, active 1360-1420 > Homes and haunts > England > St. Albans
- Walsingham, Thomas, active 1360-1420
- Thomas de Walsingham 1360-1420
- Thomas (de Walsingham)
- St. Albans Abbey
- To 1500
- Geschichte 500-1500
- Monasticism and religious orders > England > St. Albans > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Monastic and religious life > England > St. Albans > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Historiography > Great Britain > History > To 1500
- Historians > Great Britain > Biography
- Friendship
- Historians
- Historiography
- Homes
- Intellectual life
- Monastic and religious life > Middle Ages
- Monasticism and religious orders > Middle Ages
- Geistesleben
- Ordensleben
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Medieval period, 1066-1485
- St. Albans (England) > Intellectual life > To 1500
- England > Intellectual life > 1066-1485
- England
- England > St. Albans
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Oxford University, 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-303) and index.
- Contents
- 1. St. Albans in the later Middle Ages -- 2. Education -- 3. Books -- 4. Patterns of reading -- 5. Walsingham, history, and literature -- 6. Classicism -- 7. Public issues.
- ISBN
- 0199275955
- 9780199275953
- LCCN
- 2004023732
- OCLC
- ocm56753418
- 56753418
- SCSB-13651645
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library