The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-108-46176-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to History

Matthew Paris is one of the most remarkable and renowned figures in the cultural history of medieval England. A career-monk at the influential Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Paris' creative work bears witness to the rich intellectual, artistic, social and political environment of the monasteries and their lasting impact on the wider world. His compelling accounts of recent history and the lives of legendary saints and churchmen are a distinctive and valuable guide to the emergence of the English kingdom and its place in European Christendom. His accomplished and vivid artwork brings into focus both the craft skill and visual sensibility stimulated by the medieval Church. This systematic survey, the first published for almost seventy years, brings together expert scholarship and offers fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives on Paris', his life's work as writer, artist, cartographer and maker of manuscript books, and its enduring legacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, James G

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Introduction: the making of Matthew Paris James Clark; 2. Matthew Paris and the Chronica maiora: chronology, truth and the crisis of 1258 David Carpenter; 3. Matthew Paris and the Plantagenet regime James Clark; 4. Matthew Paris, Europe & Christendom Bjorn Weiler; 5. Matthew Paris and the secular church Philippa Hoskin; 6. Matthew Paris and the British Isles Andy King; 7. Matthew Paris' pictorial life of St Alban Kathryn Gerry; 8. The Becket Leaves Cecily Hennessy; 9. Manuscript design in production and transmission Jessica Coatesworth; 10. Matthew Paris and heraldry Adrian Ailes; 11. Matthew Paris and his maps Paul Harvey; 12. Matthew Paris as scribe: idiosyncrasy and collaboration Manuel Muñoz Garcia; 13. The vernacular culture of Matthew Paris Marianne Ailes; 14. Afterlife James Clark; 15. Matthew Paris' manuscripts: working books and artefacts in medieval and early modern collections Andrew Dunning; 16. Digitising Matthew Paris: challenges, processes and outcomes Estelle Gittins, Alison Ray, Caroline Harding and Claire McNulty; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Clark, James G
James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has written widely on the culture, intellectual and religious life of monasteries in medieval England and their legacies after the Reformation. His books include A Monastic Renaissance (2004), The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (2011) and The Dissolution of the Monasteries (2021).