Tony Mcaleavy

Malmesbury Abbey 670-1539 (eBook, ePUB)

Patronage, Scholarship and Scandal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Malmesbury Abbey was an institution of national significance throughout the Middle Ages and this book is the first full-length study of its history. Drawing upon particularly rich surviving documentary sources, it describes the monastery's evolution from the late seventh century to the Dissolution in 1539. The place was home to two particularly eminent writers: Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury. The Abbey had many royal connections. It housed the mausoleum of Æthelstan, first king of all England, and was effectively re-founded by King Edgar as part of an elite network of Benedictine communities intended to offer prayers on behalf of the royal house of Wessex. Queen Matilda, wife of Henry I, took a close interest in the monastery's affairs. Henry Plantagenet was present when a massacre took place in the Abbey church in 1153. In the 1320s the monks became caught up in the conflict between Edward II and his baronial opponents. The Abbey was also important architecturally. The church was completely rebuilt at the behest of Bishop Roger of Salisbury, chief minister of Henry I, and the surviving south porch contains some of the finest Romanesque sculpture in England.

Previously neglected or unexamined sources are used extensively. The book reveals for the first time the identity of the Malmesbury monk who wrote the chronicle known as Eulogium Historiarum in the 1360s; his name was Thomas of Bromham and he envisaged a messianic role for the Black Prince. New light is shed on the extraordinary careers of abbots such as William of Colerne who transformed the Abbey's economic fortunes and John of Tintern who was accused of murder and arson. The turbulent final years of the Abbey's existence receive considerable attention, including an account of the spectacular breakdown in discipline in 1527 when Abbot Richard Camme was attacked by a gang of rebellious monks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800109872
• Artikelnr.: 68108768

Autorenporträt

Tony McAleavy with Michael Winterbottom

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Before the monastery 1. From Máeldub to Aldhelm 2. Aldhelm's
community 3. Royal patronage and exploitation: 710-960 4. Malmesbury and
the late Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform movement 5. Responding to the
Conquest: 1066-1100 6. William of Malmesbury and Queen Matilda 7. The
ascendancy of Bishop Roger of Salisbury 8. The Abbey and the Anarchy 9. The
dispute with the bishops of Salisbury: 1142-1217 10. A self-confident age:
the Abbey in the thirteenth century 11. The Despenser years and the
criminal career of Abbot John of Tintern 12. Thomas of Bromham and the
Eulogium Historiarum 13. After the Black Death 14. The abbots of
Malmesbury: 1396-1480 15. The Tudor Abbey Epilogue: After the departure of
the monks Bibliography Index