Monastic Studies: The Continuity of Tradition

Table of Contents:
Saint Bernard - what kind of saint?, Professor Christopher Holdsworth; the society of Jesus in the wars of religion, Professor John Bossy; The English Benedictines - the search for a monastic identity, 1880-1920, Dom Aidan Bellenger; early Egyptian monasticism and the church, Dr Graham Gould; the distinctiveness of Palestinian monasticism 450-550 AD, Dr John Binns; and liturgies - the influence of the monasteries on the development of the medieval liturgy, Rev Dr Martin Dudley; the spirituality and miracles of St Radegunde, Dr Joan M.Petersen; what was an early Anglo-Saxon monastery?, Dr Sarah Foot; mapping Cistercian lands with especial reference to Wales, Rev Dr David Williams; monasticism in Chester 1092-1300 - a tale of mediocrity, Dr Anne Frances Dawtry; William I's relations with Cluny further considered, Rev Dr H.E.J.Cowdrey; the "Vita Stephani Muretansis" and the early life of Stephen of Muret, Mrs Maire Wilkinson; hermits, monks and women in twelfth-century France and England - the experience of Obazine and Sempringham, Dr Brian Golding; for the see of Simon Peter - the Cistercians at Innocent III's nearest frontier, Miss Brenda Bolton; the English manoresses and their early benefactors 1281-1367, Dr Michael Hicks; the motives of patrons of the order of St Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Mr John Walker; Jacquemart Gielee's "Renart Le Nouvel" - the image of the military orders on the eve of the loss of acre, Dr Helen Nicholson; the Lyon Dominicans - a double act, Dr Jean Dunbabin; St Bridget of Sweden and the order of the Holy Saviour, Mr Frank Johnson; fifteenth-century Franciscan reform and the Spanish "Conversos" - the case of Fray Alonso de Espina, Dr John Edwards; the civil servant and monastic reform - Richard Fox's translation of the Benedictine rule for women, 1517, Dr Barry Collett; community solidarity among Yorkshire religious after the dissolution, Professor Clair Cross; the fate of monastic churches in Cumbria - a consideration of the position at law, Mr John Holden; women of the "English Catholic Community" - nuns and pupils at the Bar Convent, York, 1680-1790, Dr Susan O'Brien; two eighteenth century views of monasticism - Joseph Bingham and Edward Gibbon, Rev Dr Leslie W Barnard; founders and followers - leadership in Anglican religious communities, Rev Brian Taylor; in commendation of a monastic Emden - prosopographic source material for English medieval Benedictine history, Dr Joan Greatrex.