papers read at the 1984 summer meeting and the 1985 winter meeting of the Ecclesiast. History Society Sheils, William J. text xx Oxford Blackwell for the Society 1985 9999 monographic und eng

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xiii, 460 p. ; 23 cm. The ascetic ideal in the history of the Church / Henry Chadwick -- Christian asceticism and the early school of Alexandria / J.A. McGuckin -- The death of ascetics: sickness and monasticism in the early Byzantine Middle East / Peregrine Horden -- Celtic asceticism and Carolingian authority in early medieval Brittany / Julia M.H. Smith -- Romuald -- model hermit: eremitical theory in Saint Peter Damian's Vita Beati Romualdi, chapters 16-17 / Colin Phipps -- A hermit goes to war: Peter and the origins of the First Crusade / Ernest O. Blake and Colin Morris -- Monk and canon: some patterns in the religious life of the twelfth century / Christopher N.L. Brooke -- The transformation of hermitages into Augustinian priories in twelfth-century England / Jane Herbert -- Monastic friendship and toleration in twelfth-century Cistercian life / Brian Patrick McGuire. Via ascetica: a papal quandary / Brenda M. Bolton -- Instabilitas loci: the wanderlust of late Byzantine monks / Donald M. Nicol -- The rule of St Peter, the first hermit, in late medieval England / Virginia Davis -- Multum ieiunantes et se castigantes: medieval Waldensian asceticism / Peter Biller -- Luther and the ascetic life / George Yule -- 'Prayers fir for the time': fasting and prayer in response to natural crises in the reign of Elizabeth I / C.J. Kitching -- The religious life in the Spain of Philip II and Philip III / A.D. Wright -- The ascetic tradition and the English College at Valladolid / Michael E. Williams -- Puritan asceticism and the type of sacrifice / Susan Hardman. Joseph Bingham and asceticism / L.W. Barnard -- Plainness of speech, behaviour and apparel in eighteenth-century English Quakerism / David J. Hall -- Voltaire and the monks / John McManners -- 'A standing miracle': La Trappe at Lulworth 1794-1817 / Dominic Aidan Bellenger -- Changing images of Roman Catholic religious orders in the nineteenth century / Bernard Aspinwall -- William John Butler and the revival of the ascetic tradition / Ann Frances -- Archbishop Davidson, Bishop Gore and Abbot Carlyle: Benedectine monks in the Anglican Church / Rene M. Kollar -- Self-denial and the Free Churches: some literary responses / David J. Keep -- Freedom through discipline: the concept of Little Church / Clyde Binfield. edited by William J. Sheils Asceticism History Congresses.Monasticism and religious orders Congresses.Hermits Congresses BV5021 .M654 1985 97806311435120631143513 220820