Klappentext This is a collection by a great scholar who is an artist in words. Zusammenfassung This collection transports us into the monastic age - the thousand years between the sixth and sixteenth centuries! when the monasteries were the treasure-houses of Europe's social! cultural and religious heritage. The men we encounter are each representative! in differing ways! of their own historical setting and of the strengths and weaknesses of mankind. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The rule of St Benedict; 2. Bede the venerable; 3. Three monastic founders: Dunstan, Ethelwold and Oswald; 4. Lanfranc; 5. Anselm of Canterbury; 6. Alfred of Rievaulx; 7. Gilbert Foliot; 8. Two great abbots: Odo of Battle and Samson of Bury; 9. Hugh of Lincoln; 10. Gerald of Wales; 11. Francis of Assisi; 12. Thomas of Eccleston; 13. Roger Bacon; 14. Matthew Paris; 15. Henry of Eastry; 16. Thomas de la Mare; 17. Uthred of Boldon; 18. John Wyclif; 19. William More, Prior of Worcester.

Zusammenfassung
This collection transports us into the monastic age - the thousand years between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, when the monasteries were the treasure-houses of Europe's social, cultural and religious heritage. The men we encounter are each representative, in differing ways, of their own historical setting and of the strengths and weaknesses of mankind.

Inhalt

1. The rule of St Benedict; 2. Bede the venerable; 3. Three monastic founders: Dunstan, Ethelwold and Oswald; 4. Lanfranc; 5. Anselm of Canterbury; 6. Alfred of Rievaulx; 7. Gilbert Foliot; 8. Two great abbots: Odo of Battle and Samson of Bury; 9. Hugh of Lincoln; 10. Gerald of Wales; 11. Francis of Assisi; 12. Thomas of Eccleston; 13. Roger Bacon; 14. Matthew Paris; 15. Henry of Eastry; 16. Thomas de la Mare; 17. Uthred of Boldon; 18. John Wyclif; 19. William More, Prior of Worcester.