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Christian religious orders --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Christian spirituality --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Bridgettines --- Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England) --- Rules. --- 271.71 <093> --- Kartuizers--Historische bronnen --- 271.71 <093> Kartuizers--Historische bronnen

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Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established by the fourteenth-century mystic St Bridget of Sweden. After its dispersal at the Dissolution, the community survived in exile and was briefly restored during the reign of Mary I; but with the accession of Elizabeth I, some of the nuns and brothers once again sought refuge on the Continent, first in the Netherlands and later in Lisbon.

This volume of essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its experience, and exploring the interconnections between late medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve of the Reformation and the impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the process, the volume engages with larger questions about the origins and consequences of religious, intellectual and cultural change in late medieval and early modern England.

E. A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter; Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Reformation History, University of Exeter

Contributors: E. A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grise, Claire Walker, Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison

Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Books and reading --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Women in Christianity --- Convents --- Nuns --- Sisterhoods --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Catholic Church --- Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England) --- Monastery of Syon (Isleworth, London, England) --- England --- Church history --- 1400-1700. --- Books. --- Catholic renewal. --- Dissolution. --- English. --- Manuscript. --- Print. --- Reading. --- Reformation. --- Religion. --- Religious culture. --- Syon Abbey. --- Writing.

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091 =20 --- 271.1 <420 CANTERBURY> --- Anglo-Saxons --- -Saxons --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Benedictijnen--Engeland--CANTERBURY --- Sources --- Mildred Saint --- St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) --- -Canterbury (England). --- Saint Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) --- St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Eng. --- Charters, grants, privileges --- Canterbury (England) --- -Great Britain --- Kent (England) --- -Thanet (England) --- -Charters, grants, privileges --- History --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 271.1 <420 CANTERBURY> Benedictijnen--Engeland--CANTERBURY --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- -271.1 <420 CANTERBURY> Benedictijnen--Engeland--CANTERBURY --- Saxons --- Mildred, --- Mildrith, --- Mildthritha, --- Milthritha, --- Canterbury (England). --- Charters. --- Great Britain --- Thanet (England) --- Thanet, Eng. --- Thanet (Kent) --- Kent, Eng. --- County of Kent (England) --- Canterbury, Eng. --- Canterbury (Kent) --- City & County of Canterbury (England) --- City and County of Canterbury (England) --- City and County Borough of Canterbury (England) --- Durouernon (England) --- Durovernum Cantiacorum (England) --- Cantwaraburh (England) --- Cantwareburh (England) --- Charters, grants, privileges. --- Sources. --- Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England) --- Minster-in-Thanet

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This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text which throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The biblical commentaries represent the teaching of two gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668-90) and his colleague Hadrian (d. 710) taught the Bible to a group of Anglo-Saxon scholars, who recorded their teaching. The resulting commentaries illustrate the high point of biblical scholarship between late antiquity and the Renaissance. The commentaries, found by Professor Bischoff in Milan in 1936, constitute one of the most important medieval texts discovered this century. The edition is introduced by substantial chapters on the intellectual background of the texts and their manuscript sources. The Latin texts themselves are accompanied by facing English translations and extensive notes.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Manuscript. M. 79 sup. --- Milaan. Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Handschrift. M. 79 sup. --- Milan. Bibliothèque ambrosienne. Manuscrit. M. 79 sup. --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Education --- Biblioteca ambrosiana. --- St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) --- Bibliography --- Bible --- Commentaries --- Early works to 1800 --- Commentaires --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- History --- Biblioteca ambrosiana --- 22.07 --- -Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Bijbel: kommentaren; commentaren; bijbelverklaring --- -History --- -Canterbury (England). --- Saint Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England) --- St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, Eng. --- Bibliothèque ambrosienne --- Milan (Italy). --- Maktabat al-Ambrūziyānā bi-Mīlānū --- Milan. --- Ambrosiana Gallery --- مكتبة الامبروزيانا --- مكتبة امبروسيانة --- Veneranda Biblioteca ambrosiana --- -Bijbel: kommentaren; commentaren; bijbelverklaring --- -Bibliography --- -Bibliothèque ambrosienne --- Canterbury (England). --- Monachism --- Orders, Religious --- Education&delete& --- Bibliography. --- Early works to 1800. --- Biblia --- England --- Canterbury (England) --- Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England) --- Bible - Commentaries - Early works to 1800. --- Monasticism and religious orders - England - Canterbury - Education - History. --- Monasticism and religious orders - England - Canterbury - Education - History --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- History. --- Education. --- St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England). --- Bible. --- Codice atlantico.