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Medieval Monasteries

Eynsham: A village and its Abbey
by Alan Hardy, with illustrations by Ros Smith
For five hundred years the small village of Eynsham in Oxfordshire has lived with the hazy memory of a great Benedictine abbey that once flourished at its heart. In recent years major archaeological excavations have revealed much of the abbey s remains and intriguing evidence of settlement going back 3000 years. Here for the first time the history and the archaeology have been combined to bring to life the story of the village and its abbey, and ...
Paperback. Price GB £4.50

Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain
by Roberta Gilchrist and Barney Sloane
This volume challenges previous assumptions about medieval burial through comprehensive study of excavated monastic cemeteries. Some 8000 graves are analysed from more than 70 cemeteries in England, Wales and Scotland, focusing principally on medieval religious houses (c.1050-c.1600) with comparative evidence from cathedrals, parish churches and Jewish cemeteries. The book is complemented by a fully accessible, web-mounted database archived with ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.95

The Benedictines in the Middle Ages
by James G. Clark
Monastic houses following the rule of St. Benedict of Nursia were the most numerous in medieval Europe - their ranks containing several of the continent's wealthiest, most influential and most highly regarded. This study offers an overview of the order across the Middle Ages, tracing institutional and religious developments from their sixth century beginnings and spread throughout Europe down to the Reformation. Topics include the growing wealth ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
by Janet Burton and Julie Kerr
The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. By around 1150 they had established houses the length and breadth of Western Christendom and were internationally renowned. They sought to return to a simple form of monastic life, as set down in the Rule of St Benedict, and preferred rural locations `far from the haunts ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

English Benedictine Cathedral Priories: Rule and Practice, c.1270-1420
by Joan Greatrex
This impressively detailed comparative study of the lives of the monks of England's Benedictine Cathedral Priories, draws upon, and acts as a sequel to, the huge array of data collated by the author in her Biographical Register of the English Cathedral Priories of the Province of Canterbury, 1066-1540. Joan Greatrex uses the information contained in obedientiaries and other documents to reconstruct the monastic life-cycle, from arrival at ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00

Glendalough: City of God
edited by Charles Doherty, Linda Doran and Mary Kelly
The monastic site af Glendalough in Co. Wicklow is a magic place that captures many hearts. This volume contains 20 papers, some from a conference held by the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, others from the IMC at Leeds and elsewhere, all devoted to the history of the place. Topics range widely: early Irish church settlement, organization of space in early Irish monasteries, St Kevin's House and its interpretation, the 'market cross', ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

The Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages
by Andrew Jotischky
Andrew Jotischky here presents a "culinary history of monasticism", exploring monastic attitudes to food and fasting, as well as asking what monks actually ate in practice. He traces the monastic diet from the extreme asceticism of the early desert fathers to the institutionalised monasticism of the later Middle Ages, where hospitality was seen as an important component of monastic life, and where the concommitant feasting came to scandalise ...
Hardback. Price GB £17.99

The Rule of Saint Benedict
edited and translated by Bruce L. Venarde
A new Latin-English edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed the lives of monks in monasteries across the medieval world. The rule, originally composed by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century covers all aspects of organisation, worship, discipline and everyday life. An introduction places the rule in context and discusses the St. Gall manuscript from which this edition is taken. 278p (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 2011)
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

San Vincenzo Maggiore and its Workshops
by Richard Hodges, Sarah Leppard and John Mitchell
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conservation. Over the following eighteen years, a large multidisciplinary project was undertaken involving archaeologists, historians and art historians. This consisted of major open-area excavations of the early ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00

Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cisterican Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania from the Twelfth to the Late Fourteenth Century
by Emilia Jamroziak
This comparative study analyses Cistercian strategies on the northern and north-eastern frontiers of medieval Europe. Through case studies of six houses in Pomerania and Neumark (Ko?bacz, Marienwalde, and Himmelstädt) and on the Scottish-English border (Melrose, Dundrennan, and Holm Cultram), the author traces the development of social networks around these monasteries within their own regions and across borders, and explores the importance of ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00