The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West 2 Volume Hardback Set

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.

Part I. The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century; Part II. The Carolingians to the Eleventh Century; Part III. The Long Twelfth Century; Part IV. Forms of Monasticism in the Late Middle Ages.

Alison I. Beach is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is author of The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany (Cambridge, 2017) and Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Cambridge, 2004).
Isabelle Cochelin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor of several volumes, most recently From Learning to Love: Schools, Laws, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages (with Tristan Sharp, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Abigail Firey and Giulio Silano, 2017).