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50 - Late Medieval Monasticism: Historiography and Prospects

from Part IV - Forms of Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Elisabeth Lusset  and
Bert Roest
Edited by
Alison I. Beach  and
Isabelle Cochelin
Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

While general surveys of medieval monasticism and monographs on individual religious orders often continue to work within the well-worn paradigm of the decline of organized religious life in the late Middle Ages, a foray into the quickly growing body of scholarship on late medieval monasticism tells a different story. Medievalists and Renaissance scholars with varied backgrounds and with widely diverging research interests have opened up the field, as is evident from the contributions to this fourth and final section of these volumes. It is not our intention to “double” the insights presented in the contributions offered here, but rather to use some of their central topics to highlight a number of trends present in today’s research and to clarify the direction in which the study of later medieval monasticism is heading. This has become a very exciting and rich field of research indeed, and one that is particularly innovative with respect to female monasticism and intellectual life.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 923 - 940
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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