Monastic Wales brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, working in the areas of history, archaeology, literature, and material culture, to investigate the importance of medieval monasteries in the shaping of Welsh culture, politics, society, and economy. It demonstrates the importance of Welsh monasteries and nunneries, chronicling the many and diverse ways in which religious men and women and their communities contributed to the shaping of the equally diverse regions we now call Wales.
272 pages | 13 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2013
History: British and Irish History
Religion: Religion and Society
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Janet Burton and Karen Stöber
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Janet Burton and Karen Stöber
Part I: Foundation, Transition and Transformation
1. The Archaeology of Monasteries in Wales and the Strata Florida Project
David Austin
2. Transition and Transformation: the Benedictine Houses
Janet Burton
3. Culdees to Canons: the Augustinian Houses of North Wales
Karen Stöber and David Austin
4. Monasteries and Urban Space in Medieval Welsh Towns
Jens Röhrkasten
Part II: State Building, Authority and Power
5. The Medieval Grants to Strata Florida Abbey: Mapping the Agency of Lordship
Jemma Bezant
6. The Rulers of Gwynedd and Powys
David Stephenson
7. Monastic Burial in Medieval Wales
Andrew Abram
Part III: Movement and Social Interaction
8. Pilgrimage
Kathryn Hurlock
9. Travel and Communication
Jemma Bezant
10. The Knights Hospitaller
Helen J. Nicholson
11. Wales and Ireland: Monastic Links
Arlene Hogan
Part IV: Cultural Identity and Production
12. Monastic Patronage of Welsh Poetry
Dafydd Johnston
13. Abbess Annes and the Ape
Jane Cartwright
14. Manuscripts and the Monasteries
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
15. Interpretations of Claustral Spaces with Special Reference to Dormitories
Anne Müller
Bibliography
Abbreviations to the Index
Index