A monastic renaissance at St. Albans
Thomas Walsingham and his circle, c. 1350-1440
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Word Count
79,000 words, Guess
Page Count
316 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3297781M
- ISBN-100199275955
- OCLC Control Number56753418
- Library of Congress Control Number2004023732
- Goodreads4818454
Classifications
- DDC942.5/8503
- LCCDA3.W35 C57 2004
Description
"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.
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