A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c.1350–1440. By James G. Clark. Pp. xii + 316. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford University Press, 2004. isbn 0 19 927595 5. £55
This book aims to redress what its author considers to be a bias in English historical scholarship, since the time of Knowles, in judging that by the later Middle Ages monastic culture had fallen away from its earlier peak until the monasteries were marginal to culture. St Alban's, with Thomas...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 739-742 |
| Review of: | A monastic renaissance at St. Albans (Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 2008) (Harvey, Margaret)
A monastic renaissance at St Albans (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) (Harvey, Margaret) |
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| Summary: | This book aims to redress what its author considers to be a bias in English historical scholarship, since the time of Knowles, in judging that by the later Middle Ages monastic culture had fallen away from its earlier peak until the monasteries were marginal to culture. St Alban's, with Thomas Walsingham as a central figure, provides an excellent source for study because it has left a wealth of material, both in historical writing and other types of literary pursuit. Probably the major discovery here is a very careful analysis of writings by several monks which shows considerable learning in classical culture and an ability to imitate and to play with classical allusions and references which is often thought to belong to later Renaissance scholarship. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli211 |