Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900. By Sarah Foot
This important book presents an overview of English monastic life more or less from the beginning up to a point of reassessment in the age of Alfred. Two influential viewpoints are focal: from within the period described, Bede's preference for ‘similitude over distinctiveness’ when he wrote abo...
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Review |
Язык: | Английский |
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2009
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The journal of theological studies
Год: 2009, Том: 60, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 724-729 |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
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Итог: | This important book presents an overview of English monastic life more or less from the beginning up to a point of reassessment in the age of Alfred. Two influential viewpoints are focal: from within the period described, Bede's preference for ‘similitude over distinctiveness’ when he wrote about the early monasteries was accompanied by his concentration rather on what was praiseworthy than what was bad; in retrospect, Æthelwold and his fellow reformers of the tenth-century church in England looked back to an idealized past, finding in Bede an image of harmony that accorded with their wish to impose the Benedictine Rule as the single standard for monastic life. A golden glow had come to pervade the dark ages, lingering on a sense of lost achievement and punctuated by the Viking onslaught. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp071 |