The monastic enclosure

  • The moral and physical enclosure of monks and nuns is central to the founding documents of Western monasticism. But even there it encountered the need for monasteries to interact with their societies, through recruits, hospitality, and the monastic economy. The increasing intensity of this tension is traced through key reforming texts, until later English visitations open up religious houses to closer scrutiny, ironically aided by inmates' quandary over whether to conceal or reveal their secrets.

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Author:Benjamin ThompsonORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687177
URL:https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/thompson_monastic-enclosure.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_13
ISBN:978-3-96558-029-9
ISBN:978-3-96558-030-5
ISSN:2627-731X
Parent Title (English):Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23
Publisher:ICI Press
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2022/06/29
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/07/06
Tag:Benedictines; Cistercians; Enclosure; Monasticism; Visitation
GND Keyword:Mönchtum; Klausur; Ordensregel; Benediktiner; Zisterzienser; Benedikt XII., Papst; Ordensreform; Visitation
Page Number:21
First Page:250
Last Page:269
HeBIS-PPN:497201364
Dewey Decimal Classification:2 Religion / 23 Christentum, Christliche Theologie / 230 Christentum, Christliche Theologie
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 94 Geschichte Europas / 940 Geschichte Europas
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0