A Royal Foundation, Syon Abbey, Past and Present, by the Bridgettine Nuns of Syon
Author : Syon Abbey (South Brent, England)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Syon Abbey (South Brent, England)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Bridgettine Nuns of Syon
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Abbeys
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Author : Edward Alexander Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1843835479
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
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Christopher De Hamel
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Cheshire (England)
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List of members in each volume.
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Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Catholics
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A journal of research in Post-Reformation Catholic history in the British Isles.
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Great Britain
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Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0851159001
Challenging the view that England's monasteries and mendicant convents fell into a headlong decline long before Henry VIII set about destroying them at the Dissolution, these essays offer a reassessment of the religious orders on the eve of the Reformation.
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1945
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