Monastic Wales New Approaches 1st Edition by Janet Burton, Karen Stöber ISBN 0708325831 9780708325834

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ISBN 10: 0708325831

ISBN 13: 9780708325834

Author:  Janet Burton, Karen Stöber 

Monastic Wales: New Approaches 1st Edition : Monastic Wales new approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political and economic context of the religious houses of Wales between the Norman conquest in the eleventh century, and the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth.

 

Monastic Wales: New Approaches 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Part I: Foundation, Transition and Transformation

  • The archaeology of monasteries in Wales and the Strata Florida project
  • Transition and transformation: the Benedictine houses
  • Culdees to canons: the Augustinian houses of North Wales
  • Monasteries and urban space in medieval Welsh towns

• Part II: State Building, Authority and Power

  • The medieval grants to Strata Florida Abbey: mapping the agency of lordship
  • The rulers of Gwynedd and Powys
  • Monastic burial in medieval Wales

• Part III: Movement and Social Interaction

  • Pilgrimage
  • Travel and communication
  • The Knights Hospitaller
  • Wales and Ireland: monastic links

• Part IV: Cultural Identity and Production

  • Monastic patronage of Welsh poetry
  • Abbess Annes and the ape
  • Manuscripts and the monasteries
  • Interpretations of claustral spaces with special reference to dormitories

 

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