Benedict's DisciplesDavid Hugh Farmer A fascinating presentation of the great monastic figures, monks and nuns, who have contributed so much to British history, written by a range of the foremost Benedictine scholars of out time. Spanning the period from the sixth century to the twentieth, these lives show the followers of the Rule of St Benedict to have been one of the most important influences in the making of Europe. Edited by the noted scholar and mediaevalist Hugh David Farmer. |
Contents
St Benedict | 21 |
St Gregory and St Augustine | 41 |
St Hilda and St Etheldreda | 70 |
St Bede | 86 |
St Boniface in his Correspondence | 105 |
Silentia Claustri | 118 |
St Dunstan and the Monastic Reform | 139 |
Lanfranc and St Anselm | 154 |
Benedictine Nuns in Medieval England | 225 |
The Last Abbots of Glastonbury Reading and Colchester | 245 |
Three SeventeenthCentury Benedictine Martyrs | 266 |
Dame Gertrude More | 283 |
The English Benedictine Mission and Missions | 302 |
The Benedictine Revival in the Nineteenth Century | 324 |
Archbishop Ullathorne | 350 |
Benedictine Monasticism in the Twentieth Century | 369 |
St Ailred of Rievaulx | 175 |
St Godric of Finchale and St Bartholomew of Farne | 195 |
Thomas de la Mare and Uthred of Boldon | 212 |
Medieval and Modern Statistics | 391 |
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