Syon Abbey And Its Books

Author : Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835479
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syon Abbey and Its Books written by Edward Alexander Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience. Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established by the fourteenth-century mystic St Bridget of Sweden. After its dispersal at the Dissolution, the community survived in exile and was briefly restored during the reign of Mary I; but with the accession of Elizabeth I, some of the nuns and brothers once again sought refuge on the Continent, first in the Netherlands and later in Lisbon. This volumeof essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its experience, and exploring the interconnections between late medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve of the Reformationand the impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the process, the volume engages with larger questions about the origins and consequences of religious, intellectual and cultural change in late medieval and early modern England. E.A. JONES is Senior Lecturerin English, University of Exeter; ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grise, Claire Walker, Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison

Author : Susan Powell
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503532356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birgittines of Syon Abbey written by Susan Powell and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the Birgittine Order of nuns as producers and readers of texts in Britain from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, through an analysis of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. It highlights the community's response to teachings of St Birgitta, the dissemination of Birgittine texts, and Lady Margaret Beaufort's role as intermediary between Syon and the outside world.

Author : Alexandra da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199653569
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Printing written by Alexandra da Costa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text investigates how Syon Abbey responded to the religious turbulence of the 1520s and 1530s. It examines the 11 books 3 brothers had printed during this period and argues that the Bridgettines used vernacular printing to engage with religious and political developments that threatened their understanding of orthodox faith.

Author : George James Aungier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery written by George James Aungier and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael B. Tait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482533408
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fair Place written by Michael B. Tait and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fully updated revision of the author's doctoral thesis, examining the history, constitutional arangements and intellectual life of the Brigittines of Syon Abbey, near London. Emphasis is placed on the continuity of contacts and the similarity of observance between Syon and its Mother House at Vadstena in Sweden. Syon was distinctive in being a double monastery, for men and women; it enjoyed a deserved reputation for orthodoxy, piety and scholarship; and it was one of the last houses to be dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. This is a timely contribution to the history of the house in the period leading up to the sexcentenary of its foundation in 2015."--Amazon.com.

Author : Saint Bridget (of Sweden)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915892
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Bride and Her Book written by Saint Bridget (of Sweden) and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992.

Author : Jenna Lay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293029
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Cloister written by Jenna Lay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of Catholic women appear with surprising frequency in the literature of post-Reformation England. Playwrights and poets from William Shakespeare to Andrew Marvell invoke the figure of the nun to powerful and often perplexing effect, and works that never directly address female Catholicism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander, share a discourse with contemporary debates regarding the status of recusant women. Catholic Englishwomen, whether living in convents on the European continent or as recusants in their own country, contributed to these debates, but even as their writings addressed the central religious and political issues of their time, their contributions were effaced and now are largely forgotten. Exploring the writings of Catholic women in conversation with those of Shakespeare, Marvell, Marlowe, Donne, and other canonical authors, Beyond the Cloister shows that nuns and recusants were centrally important to the development of English literature. The defining narratives of early modern England cast nuns as the relics of an unenlightened past and equated Catholic femininity with the dangerous charms of the Whore of Babylon. With careful attention to literary figurations of Catholic femininity and to the vibrant manuscript culture in the English convents, Jenna Lay reveals a far more complex reality. Through their use of tropes, figures, generic patterns, and literary allusions, Catholic women produced politically incendiary and rhetorically powerful lyrics, prayers, polemics, and hagiographies. Drawing on the insights of religious studies, historical formalism, and feminist criticism, Beyond the Cloister offers a reassessment of crucial decades in the development of English literary history.

Author : Rebecca Krug
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731823
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Families written by Rebecca Krug and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations motivated women to engage in text-based activities. Although not all or even the majority of women could read and write, it became natural for women to think of writing as a part of everyday life.Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her husband's request, and ends with devotional texts that describe the spiritual daughterhood of the Bridgettine readers.Scholars often assume that medieval women's participation in literate culture constituted a rejection of patriarchal authority. Krug maintains, however, that for most women learning to engage with the written word served as a practical response to social changes and was not necessarily a revolutionary act.

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814651698
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Showing of Love written by Julian (of Norwich) and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Showing of Love, Julia Bolton Holloway provides a complete translation of Julian of Norwich's ground-breaking text, opening windows of insight into her medieval world. As a female mystic and theologian who was uniquely recognized (in a time when most women were not) for her holiness, Julian of Norwich also came to be known as a catechist, prophet, and spiritual director. Showing of Love records her own healing encounter with divine love and has for many centuries been a source of healing and inspiration for others. Readers of Julian's work find her belief that God sits in our soul as a fair city to be of profound value. That city is every city, Mary its queen, Christ its king. Julian offers these layers in rich text and variant readings. Julian dedicated years of her life to shaping Showing of Love, at the end rewriting it to preserve it from censorship. The anchoress lived in St. Julian's churchyard in Norwich. Her text was saved from destruction by nuns in Brigittine and Benedictine convents, first in England, then in exile after the Reformation. Julian's writings were later published by the Benedictines in 1670. They reveal her strong links with Benedict that continue to have lasting value for readers today. Includes two-color ink on inside pages. Julia Bolton Holloway, PhD, is a vowed hermit living in Florence, Italy. She has published seventeen other works on important historical figures.

Author : Alexandra da Costa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198847580
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marketing English Books, 1476-1550 written by Alexandra da Costa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.