English Monasticism: Its Rise And Influence - Softcover

O'dell Travers Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461588455 ISBN 13: 9780461588453

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

"English Monasticism: Its Rise And Influence" by O'dell Travers Hill offers a historical survey of English monasticism, with a sustained focus on the Benedictine tradition and its influence on art, learning, and social life. Using Glastonbury Abbey as a detailed case study, the work treats monasteries as engines of civilization—scriptoria, libraries, education, charitable care, and the daily cycles of prayer and work. It examines tensions between wealth and reform, compares monastic ideals with chivalric culture and the social role of women, and surveys Britain’s early Christian origins, including apostolic planting, and the interplay of Roman, Irish, and native influences. It explains how Rome’s authority and later continental missions shaped Canterbury and the English church. Through portraits of Benedict, Maurus and Placidus, Augustine and Gregory the Great, and later reformers and abbots, the narrative traces reform, renewal, and dissolution within late medieval to Tudor England, arguing that political, economic, and spiritual forces jointly molded England’s religious landscape.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461588455
• ISBN 13: 9780461588453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 566