Religious and Laity in Western Europe, 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power

✍ Scribed by Emilia Jamroziak, Janet E. Burton

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Series: Europa Sacra, 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages in Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues in geographically and chronologically diverse settings in a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together the latest research from established as well as younger historians. The first section ‘Patrons and Benefactors: power, fashion, and mutual expectations’ examines lay involvement in foundations, the rights held by patrons, and how they used these powers, as well as networks of relationships within broader groups of benefactors. The authors demonstrate how changing fashions shaped the fortunes of particular orders and houses and explore how power relations between different types of patrons and benefactors - royal figures, kinship, and other social groupings - affected the mutual expectations of the various parties. The second section of the volume, entitled ‘Lay and Religious: negotiation, influence, and utility’, shows how lay people’s ideas of the role of religious houses could impact upon their patronage of, and support for, monastic or mendicant institutions. Conversely, religious communities offered multi-faceted benefits - practical, intellectual, or spiritual - for the secular world. The book concludes by focusing on the rapid growth of confraternities, their relation to their urban mendicant and monastic contexts, and how the role and forms of confraternities evolved in the late medieval period.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “Acknowledgements”, “List of Abbreviations”), p. i

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Introduction, p. 1
Emilia Jamroziak, Janet Burton
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3311

The Changing Expectations of a Royal Benefactor: The Religious Patronage of Henry II, p. 9
Marjorie Chibnall
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3312

Fundator Noster: Roger de Mowbray as Founder and Patron of Monasteries, p. 23
Janet Burton
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3313

Fashion and Benefaction in Twelfth-Century Western France, p. 41
Belle Stoddard Tuten
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3314

How Rievaulx Abbey Remembered its Benefactors, p. 63
Emilia Jamroziak
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3315

Monastic Benefactors in England and Denmark: Their Social Background and Gender Distribution, p. 77
Linda Rasmussen
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3316

Religious Patronage and Family Consciousness: Sorø Abbey and the ‘Hvide Family’, c. 1150-1250, p. 93
Kim Esmark
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3317

Royal Patrons and Local Benefactors: The Experience of the Hospitals of St Mary at Ospringe and Dover in the Thirteenth Century, p. 111
Sheila Sweetinburgh
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3318

Bequests and Burials: Changing Attitudes of the Laity as Patrons of English and Welsh Monasteries, p. 131
Karen Stöber
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3319

The Imperial Dynasty of Luxemburg, the Emperors, and the Mendicant Orders in the Fourteenth Century, p. 147
Hans-Joachim Schmidt
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3320

Garsinde v. Sainte Foy: Argument, Threat, and Vengeance in Eleventh-Century Monastic Litigation, p. 169
Stephen D. White
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3321

Sancto Dunstano Cooperante: Collaboration between King and Ecclesiastical Advisor in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Genealogy of the Kings of the English, p. 183
Marsha L. Dutton
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3322

Cares Beyond the Walls: Cistercian Nuns and the Care of Lepers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Northern France, p. 197
Anne E. Lester
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3323

The Representation of Monastic-Lay Relations in the Canonization Records for Louis IX, p. 225
William Chester Jordan
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3324

A Clash of Wills: Religious Patronage and the Vita Apostolica in Thirteenth-Century Flanders, p. 241
Erin Jordan
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3325

Distinguishing between the Humble Peasant Lay Brother and Sister, and the Converted Knight in Medieval Southern France, p. 263
Constance H. Berman
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3326

Looking for Common Ground: From Monastic Fraternitas to Lay Confraternity in the Southern Low Countries in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries, p. 287
Arnoud-Jan A. Bijsterveld
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3327

Monastic Confraternity in Medieval England: The Evidence from the St Albans Abbey Liber Benefactorum, p. 315
James G. Clark
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3328

The Mendicant Orders in Urban Life and Society: The Case of London, p. 333
Jens Röhrkasten
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3329

Old Stories and New Themes: An Overview of the Historiography of Confraternities in the Low Countries from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries, p. 357
Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Paul Trio
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ES-EB.3.3330

Back matter (“List of Contributors”, “Index”), p. 385

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