This major 2006 history of monasticism in early Anglo-Saxon England
explores the history of the Church between the conversion to
Christianity in the sixth century and a monastic revival in the
tenth. It represents the first comprehensive revision of accepted
views about monastic life in England before the Benedictine reform.
Sarah Foot shows how early Anglo-Saxon religious houses were
simultaneously active and contemplative, their members withdrawing
from the preoccupations of contemporary aristocratic society, while
still remaining part of that world. Focusing on the institution of
the 'minster' (the communal religious community) and rejecting a
simplistic binary division between active 'minsters' and enclosed
'monasteries', Foot argues that historians have been wrong to see
minsters in the light of ideals of Benedictine monasticism.
Instead, she demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon minsters reflected more
of contemporary social attitudes; despite their aim for solitude,
they retained close links to aristocratic German society.
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