Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles: Essays in Honour of Janet Burton

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This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. This festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students, and friends who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work, in homage to the transformative contribution that she has made to medieval monastic studies.   Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of abbreviations List of contributors Introduction Part I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain Chapter 1: Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond Chapter 2: ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medieval English monasteries Chapter 3: Formed by word and example: the training of novices in fourteenth-century Dublin Chapter 4: Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future Part II: Religious and laity Chapter 5: The world of bishops in religious orders in medieval Ireland, 1050–1230 Chapter 6: Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1538 Chapter 7: The last days of Bridlington Priory Chapter 8: Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s dramatisation of xenophobia in Relatio de Standardo Chapter 9: The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese Chapter 10: The abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English rising of 1381 Part III: Women in the medieval monastic world Chapter 11: Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologies and pitfalls Chapter 12: ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity Chapter 13: Preaching to nuns in the Norwich diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence from visitation records Select Bibliography Bibliography of Janet Burton’s publications Index Tabula Gratulatoria Back Cover