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Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c.600-900 (Hardcover)
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Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c.600-900 (Hardcover)
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This major new 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
in a very real sense 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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