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A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans - Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c.1350-1440 (Hardcover)
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A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans - Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c.1350-1440 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life
at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine
monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham
(c.1340-1422), one of the most prolific scholars of the later
middle ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell
into decline long before the dissolution and that cultural and
intellectual activities were largely abandoned as the monks
surrendered themselves to high living and low morals. This study
challenges this view. Drawing on a wide variety of manuscript
sources, it shows that education, independent study, and even the
co-ordinated copying of books continued to flourish at St Albans
(and its affiliate houses) for much of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. In fact the abbey emerged as one of the country's most
influential centres of learning, a clearing-house for books and
ideas in Ricardian and Lancastrian England. Thomas Walsingham
himself played a key part in this renaissance in monastic studies;
his works were copied and circulated throughout the St Albans
network and his influence acted upon the next generation of
monastic readers and writers. Walsingham was not only a compiler of
contemporary chronicles but also a Classical scholar of
extraordinary originality. His commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses,
his re-working of the histories of Alexander of Macedon and the
Trojan War, and his Genealogia deorum gentilium, are discussed in
detail here for the first time. Walsingham's interest in the
Classics was shared by many of his St Albans colleagues, and they
in turn were members of a wider circle of literary scholars, which
included the London schoolmaster, John Seward. The work of these
scholars, monastic and secular, points towards a revival of
Classical and literary scholarship in England long before Italian
humanism and other traces of the continental Renaissance first
found their way into the country.
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