05658nam 2200901 a 450 991081028960332120230617040415.01-383-04190-31-280-84400-00-19-151531-0(CKB)1000000000405993(StDuBDS)AH24079295(SSID)ssj0000303541(PQKBManifestationID)12070340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303541(PQKBWorkID)10276062(PQKB)10177555(MiAaPQ)EBC430735(EXLCZ)99100000000040599320041012d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA monastic renaissance at St. Albans[electronic resource] Thomas Walsingham and his circle, c. 1350-1440 /James G. ClarkOxford Clarendon Press20041 online resource (xi, 316 p. ) 1 online resource (ill.) Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Oxford University, 1997.Formerly CIP.Uk0-19-927595-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-303) and index.Introduction; 1. St Albans in the Later Middle Ages; 2. Education; 3. Books; 4. Patterns of Reading; 5. Walsingham, History, and Literature; 6. Classicism; 7. Public Issues; Conclusion; BibliographyChallenging the notion that monastic culture was in decline towards the end of the middle ages, this title looks at the work of Thomas Walsingham - one of the most prolific English writers of the period - demonstrating that there is evidence of a revival comparable to the continetal Renaissance.A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c.1340-1422), one of the most prolific scholars of the later middle ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell into decline long before the dissolution and that cultural and intellectual activities were largely abandoned as the monks surrendered themselves to high living and low morals. This study challenges this view. Drawing on a wide variety of manuscript sources, it shows that education, independent study, and even the co-ordinated copying of books continued to flourish at St Albans (and its affiliate houses) for much of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In fact the abbey emerged as one of the country's most influential centres of learning, a clearing-house for books and ideas in Ricardian and Lancastrian England. Thomas Walsingham himself played a key part in this renaissance in monastic studies; his works were copied and circulated throughout the St Albans network and his influence acted upon the next generation of monastic readers and writers. Walsingham was not only a compiler of contemporary chronicles but also a Classical scholar of extraordinary originality. His commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, his re-working of the histories of Alexander of Macedon and the Trojan War, and his Genealogia deorum gentilium, are discussed in detail here for the first time. Walsingham's interest in the Classics was shared by many of his St Albans colleagues, and they in turn were members of a wider circle of literary scholars, which included the London schoolmaster, John Seward. The work of these scholars, monastic and secular, points towards a revival of Classical and literary scholarship in England long before Italian humanism and other traces of the continental Renaissance first found their way into the country.HistoriansGreat BritainBiographyHistoriographyGreat BritainHistoryTo 1500Monastic and religious lifeEnglandSt. AlbansHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Monasticism and religious ordersEnglandSt. AlbansHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Monasticism and religious ordersHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500St. AlbansEnglandBiographyMonastic and religious lifeHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500St. AlbansEnglandHistoriographyHistoryTo 1500Great BritainHistoriansGreat BritainGreat BritainHILCCChristianityHILCCRegions & Countries - EuropeHILCCReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCHistory & ArchaeologyHILCCEnglandIntellectual life1066-1485Great BritainHistoryMedieval period, 1066-1485HistoriographySt. Albans (England)Intellectual lifeTo 1500Electronic books.lcshHistoriansHistoriographyHistoryMonastic and religious lifeHistoryMonasticism and religious ordersHistoryMonasticism and religious ordersHistoryMonastic and religious lifeHistoryHistoriographyHistoryHistoriansGreat BritainChristianityRegions & Countries - EuropeReligionPhilosophy & ReligionHistory & Archaeology942.58503Clark James G178032StDuBDSUkOxUUkStDuBDSZUkPrAHLSBOOK9910810289603321A monastic renaissance at St. Albans4017450UNINA