Sarah Foot (University of Sheffield)

Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-900

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Produktbeschreibung

This major 2006 history of English monasticism explores the history of the Church between the conversion to Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the tenth. Sarah Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780521739085
• ISBN-10: 052173908X
• Artikelnr.: 25460525

Autorenporträt

Sarah Foot is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: situating the problem
2. The ideal minster
Part I. Within the Walls: 3. The making of minsters
4. The minster community
5. Daily life within the minster
Part II. Without the Walls: 6. Dependencies, affinities, clusters
7. Minsters in the world
Coda
8. Horizons
Bibliography.