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This festschrift in honour of Professor Janet Burton celebrates her remarkable contribution to monastic scholarship, in particular her work on monasticism in the North of England and Wales, nuns and their experience, and monastic record-keeping and history writing.
This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.
AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsList of abbreviationsList of contributorsIntroductionPart I: Monastic and religious orders in Britain1. Cistercian histories in late medieval England, and beyond - James Clark2. ‘Like a mother between father and sons.’ The role of the prior in later medievalEnglish monasteries - Martin Heale3. Formed by Word and Example: the Training of Novices in Fourteenth-Century Dublin - Colmán Ó Clabaigh4. Strata Florida: a former Welsh Cistercian Abbey and its future - David AustinPart II: Religious and laity5. The World of Bishops in Religious Orders in Medieval Ireland 1050–1230 - Edel Bhreathnach6. Art, architecture, piety and patronage at Rievaulx Abbey, c.1300–1539 - Michael Carter7. The Last Days of Bridlington Priory - Claire Cross8. Galwegians and Gauls: Aelred of Rievaulx’s Dramatisation of Xenophobiain Relatio de Standardo - Marsha Dutton9. The cloister of the soul: Robert Grosseteste and the monastic houses of his diocese - Philippa Hoskin10. The Abbey of St Benet of Holme and the English Rising of 1381 - Andrew PrescottPart III: Women in the medieval monastic world11. Looking for medieval female religious in Britain and Ireland: sources, methodologiesand pitfalls - Kimm Curran12. ‘As for a nun’: corrodies, nunneries and the laity - Brian Golding13. Preaching to nuns in the Norwich Diocese on the eve of the Reformation: the evidence fromvisitation records - Veronica O'MaraBibliography of Janet Burton's publicationsAbbreviations to the indexIndexTabula Gratulatoria
