Monasticism and Literature

Monasticism and Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Major Figures
  • The Origins of Western Monasticism
  • The Origins of Western Monasticism II: Africa and Spain
  • Bernard and Bede
  • ‘An Abundant Supply of Discourse’: Augustine and the Rhetoric of Monasticism
  • ‘The Better Paths of Wisdom’: Alcuin's Monastic ‘True Philosophy’ and the Worldly Court
• Criticism: Secular Influences
  • Books and Bookmaking in Early Chronicles and Accounts
  • The Monastic Historiographical Impulse c. 1000-1260. A Re-Assessment
• Criticism: Monastic Principles And Literary Practices
  • The Message of Monasticism
  • The Friars and Pulpit Literature
  • Literary Genres
  • Epilogue: Literature and the Mystical Life
  • Monastic Life as a Context for Religious Understanding in St. Anselm
  • John Cassian's Evaluation of Monastic Practices
  • The Voyage of Brendan, an Irish Monastic Expedition to Discover the Wonders of God's World
  • Reading Anselm
• Criticism: Women And Monasticism
  • Any Corner of Heaven: Heloise's Critique of Monasticism
  • En/closed Subjects: The Wife's Lament and the Culture of Early Medieval Female Monasticism
  • Is Mother Superior? Towards a History of Feminine Amtscharisma
  • Pregnancy and Productivity: The Imagery of Female Monasticism within and beyond the Cloister Walls
  • Introduction: Religious Women and Religious Reform in the High Middle Ages, with an Emphasis on Cistercian Nuns
  • The Lady Appears: Materializations of ‘Woman’ in Early Monastic Literature
• Further Reading