TY - BOOK ID - 3100604 TI - Monastic hospitality : the Benedictines in England, c.1070-c.1250 PY - 2007 VL - 32 SN - 09552480 SN - 9781843833260 1843833263 9781846155758 9786612185700 1282185705 1846155754 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Monasticism and religious orders KW - Hospitality KW - Monachisme et ordres religieux KW - Hospitalité KW - History KW - Religious aspects KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Aspect religieux KW - Benedictines KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Monastic and religious life KW - Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion) KW - Monasteries KW - Guest accommodations KW - 271.1 <420> KW - Benedictijnen--Engeland KW - 271.1 <420> Benedictijnen--Engeland KW - Hospitalité KW - Monastic life KW - Spirituality (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) KW - Spiritual life KW - Vows KW - Cloisters (Religious communities) KW - Friaries KW - Church property KW - Religious institutions KW - Scriptoria KW - Guests, Hospitality for KW - House guests, Hospitality for KW - Houseguests, Hospitality for KW - Entertaining KW - Etiquette KW - Anglican Benedictine movement KW - Anglican Benedictines KW - Benedictines, Anglican KW - Anglican monasticism and religious orders KW - Christianity KW - Monastic and religious life - England - History - To 1500 KW - Benedictine movement (Anglican Communion) - History - To 1500 KW - Monasteries - Guest accommodations - England - History - To 1500 KW - Hospitality - Religious aspects - History - To 1500 KW - Bencések KW - Benedettini KW - Bénédictins KW - Beneditinos KW - Benedyktyni KW - O.S.B. KW - Ordem de São Bento KW - Order of Saint Benedict KW - Ordine di San Benedetto KW - Ordo Sancti Benedicti KW - OSB KW - Saint Benedict, Order of KW - Benedictines. KW - England. KW - Medieval. KW - Monastic hospitality. KW - Religious life. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3100604 AB - Hospitality was an integral part of medieval monastic life. In receiving guests the monks were following Christ's injunction and adhering to the 'Rule of St Benedict', as well as taking on an important role within society and providing a valuable service for fellow religious. This book draws on a wide range of sources to explore the practice and perception of monastic hospitality in England c. 1070-c. 1250, an important and illuminating time in a European and an Anglo-Norman context; it examines the spiritual and worldly concerns compelling monasteries to exercise hospitality, alongside the administrative, financial and other implications of receiving and caring for guests. Analysis focuses on the great Benedictine houses of Southern England (Abingdon, Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury, Reading, St Albans) for which a substantial and diverse body of material survives, but they are set in the context of other houses and other orders (chiefly the Cistercians) to show the wider picture in both England and Europe. JULIE KERR is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. ER -