IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 507: Carthusian Monasticism, I: Charterhouses - London, Mount Grace, Perth
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Monastic Research Bulletin |
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Organisers: | Joan Greatrex, Robinson College, University of Cambridge Julian M. Luxford, School of Art History, University of St Andrews |
Moderator/Chair: | Julian M. Luxford, School of Art History, University of St Andrews |
Paper 507-a | The Founders of the London Charterhouse (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 507-b | The Perth Charterhouse and its Benefactors (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
Paper 507-c | Of Monks and Books: The Disciples of Bruno and Benedict in Later Medieval England (Language: English) |
Abstract | The three paper offered in this session deal with aspects of the history of individual British charterhouses. All concern foundation, and the results of external influence on life in the Carthusian 'desert'. A fresh account of the founders of the London charterhouse will be offered, along with an examination of the benefactors of Perth, Scotland's only Carthusian monastery. The foundation of Mountgrace, best-preserved of all British charterhouses, will be examined from an archaeological perspective, with particular reference to the influence exerted on it by Franciscan architecture and site disposition. |