LEADER 05628nam 2200889 a 450 001 9910450926203321 005 20210108043026.0 010 $a1-280-84400-0 010 $a0-19-151531-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000405993 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24079295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000303541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12070340 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000303541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10276062 035 $a(PQKB)10177555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430735 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000405993 100 $a20041012d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA monastic renaissance at St. Albans$b[electronic resource] $eThomas Walsingham and his circle, c. 1350-1440 /$fJames G. Clark 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 316 p. ) $a1 online resource (ill.) 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Oxford University, 1997. 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-19-927595-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 284-303) and index. 327 $aIntroduction; 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; Bibliography 330 $aChallenging 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. 330 $bA 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. 606 $aHistorians$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aHistoriography$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMonastic and religious life$zEngland$zSt. Albans$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders$zEngland$zSt. Albans$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500$zSt. Albans$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aMonastic and religious life$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500$zSt. Albans$zEngland 606 $aHistoriography$xHistory$yTo 1500$zGreat Britain 606 $aHistorians$zGreat Britain 606 $aGreat Britain$2HILCC 606 $aChristianity$2HILCC 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y1066-1485 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yMedieval period, 1066-1485$xHistoriography 607 $aSt. Albans (England)$xIntellectual life$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory 615 0$aMonastic and religious life$xHistory 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders$xHistory 615 0$aMonastic and religious life$xHistory 615 0$aHistoriography$xHistory 615 0$aHistorians 615 7$aGreat Britain 615 7$aChristianity 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 676 $a942.58503 700 $aClark$b James G$0178032 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 2$bUkOxU 801 2$bUk 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450926203321 996 $aA monastic renaissance at St. Albans$91931621 997 $aUNINA