5th Edition
Medieval Monasticism Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
1. The call of the desert
2. The rule of St Benedict
3. Wandering saints and princely patrons
4. England and the continent
5. The emperor and the rule
6. The age of cluny
7. The cloister and the world
8. Monastic reform: The quest for the primitive
9. The Cistercian model
10. The new monasticism versus the old
11. A new kind of knighthood
12. Sister or handmaids
13. The Friars
14. Epilogue: The individual and the community
Biography
C.H. Lawrence was Professor Emeritus of the University of London, UK. His previous publications include St Edmund of Abingdon (1960), Matthew Paris and St Edmund (1996), The Friars: The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society (2001) and The Letters of Adam March (ed. and translated 2006-10).
Janet Burton is Professor of medieval history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Her previous publications include Historia Selebiensis Monasterii: The History of the Monastery of Selby (2013), Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. with Karen Stöber (2013), The Regular Canons in the British Isles in the Middle Ages, ed. with Karen Stöber (2011) and, with Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages (2011). She is joint general editor of the Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (Brepols).
