Title: Churches and churchmen in medieval Europe /
Authors: Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence.
Publisher: Hambledon Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Church history; Great Britain Church history
Abstract: "Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe penetrates many regions of the medieval church, dealing with institutions, buildings, personalities and literature. Christopher Brooke explores the origins of the diocese and the parish and traces the history of the see of Hereford and of York Minster. He discusses the arrival of the archdeacon, the Normans as cathedral builders and the kings of England and Scotland as monastic patrons. The studies of monastic life deal with the European question of monastic vocation and with St. Bernard's part in the sensational expansion of the early twelfth century. An epilogue takes us to the fourteenth century, contrasting Chaucer's parson with an actual Norfolk rector."--Jacket.
Contents: Rural ecclesiastical institutions in England: the search for their origins -- The diocese of Hereford, 676-1200 -- York Minster from the ninth to the early thirteenth centuries -- The missionary at home: the church in the towns, 1000-1250 -- The medieval town as an ecclesiastical centre -- The bishops of England and Normandy in the eleventh century: a contrast -- The archdeacon and the Norman conquest -- Princes and kings as patrons of monasteries: Normandy and England, 1066-1135 -- King David I of Scotland as a connoisseur of the religious orders -- The Normans as cathedral builders -- St. Bernard, the patrons of the Cistercians, and monastic planning -- Monk and Canon: some patterns in the religious life of the twelfth century -- Priest, deacon and layman, from St. Peter Damian to St. Francis -- John of Salisbury nd his world -- St. Clare -- Chaucer's parson and Edmund Gonville: contrasting roles of fourteenth century incumbents.