The Vocation of Service to God and Neighbour - Geoffrey Greatrex *

Essays on the Interests, Involvements and Problems of Religious Commun

KORTE INHOUD

The impingement of monastery on marketplace provides the unifying theme for this collection of nine research papers. Separation from the world, for most members of religious orders in the Middle Ages, did not imply isolation from the rest of society but, rather, a new spirituality orientated relationship which took different forms in different times and circumstances. Three of the contributors are concerned with particular aspects of the intellectual activities of the religious orders in both university and cloister. Two others examine the traumatic effects of the enforced return to secular life of thousands of men and women religious in England when monastic life was brought to an abrupt end in 1540. An individual monk's pastoral role among the laity is explored and evaluated in one paper, while another reveals the extent to which a rural English nunnery was both rooted in the local community and dependent on foreign supervision. Problems encountered by the friars are discussed by two other contributors who,...
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1998Uitgever: Brepols Publishers144 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503507417ISBN-13: 9782503507415

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