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Monasticism in North-Western Europe, 800-1200 (Paperback)
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Monasticism in North-Western Europe, 800-1200 (Paperback)
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This work is a full-scale integrated synthesis of the origins,
spread and effects of monasticism in Scandinavia, and along the
shores of the Baltic and the North Sea. Beginning with a review of
the geography and communications by land and, especially, by sea,
of the region, Nyberg goes on to describe early monasticism among
the Frisians ,Saxons and the Danes, then in Norway and Sweden,
Saxony, Slesvig and Ribe, and finally Pomerania and the southern
and eastern Baltic littoral. Throughout the book he stresses the
place of abbeys and convents within their local surroundings, as
centres of conversion, recruitment and redistribution of wealth. He
traces the intellectual, literary and liturgical connections
between monastic centres and neighbouring cathedral towns and royal
strongholds, and the means by which orders or congregations
maintained discipline from the centre. He also describes the
leaders who emerged from convent, abbey or congregation to command
local and regional political and cultural life, and the ways in
which monastic centres influenced popular devotion.
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