The Gateway to the Middle Ages: Monasticism
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In an era when the sounds of monasticism's interior life speak to a new generation, Eleanor Shipley Duckett offers an illuminated description of its development under such figures as Columban, "the saint afire with Irish enthusiam"; St. Benedict, greatest of the monks, who established a pattern of the religious life still vibrant to this day; and St. Gregory, Benedict's pupil and greatest of the popes, who more than any other prepared the See of Rome for its triumphant emergence in the Middle Ages.
"Professor Duckett writes a history of this period that is as full of intellectual excitement as those centuries were of military excitement." -- Christian Century
"New light on the troubled origins of the medieval spirit." --New Republic
Eleanor Shipley Duckett was Professor Emerita of Latin Languages and Literature, Smith College.
"Professor Duckett writes a history of this period that is as full of intellectual excitement as those centuries were of military excitement." -- Christian Century
"New light on the troubled origins of the medieval spirit." --New Republic
Eleanor Shipley Duckett was Professor Emerita of Latin Languages and Literature, Smith College.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0472060511
ISBN13:9780472060511
Release Date:December 1988
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"
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Monasticism AD 600
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Eleanor Shipley Duckett is one of a handful of medieval scholars whose works are always both amusing and informative. This one is no exception. After introductory chapters on early trends in Roman and Celtic monasticism, she launches into two jewel-like portraits -- of St Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, and St Gregory the Great, a monk turned pope. Duckett's Dark Ages are illuminated with the warmth of her monk-saints who strove to protect their fledgeling communities in the face of turmoil and rapine. At the same time, they sought to burnish their souls so that they would be pleasing to the all-merciful God who cast so much adversity their way. Yet these spiritual heroes just tightened their belts and leaned ever harder into the wind. The simple things that we have lost!
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