Monasteries on the Borders of Medieval Europe: Conflict and Cultural Interaction

286 Pages·2013·7.459 MB·English

by  Emilia Jamroziak , Karen Stöber

Monasteries on the Borders
of Medieval Europe
MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 28
Monasteries on the Borders
of Medieval Europe
Conflict and Cultural Interaction
Edited by
Emilia Jamroziak
and Karen Stöber
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Monasteries on the borders of medieval Europe : conflict and cultural interaction.
-- (Medieval church studies ; 28)
1. Monasticism and religious orders--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
2. Monasteries--Europe--History--To 1500.
I. Series
II. Jamroziak, Emilia editor.
III. Stober, Karen editor.
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
EMILIA JAMRozIAK and KAREN STöBER 1
Conflict and Its Resolution
Piety, Politics, and Plunder across the Anglo-Welsh Frontier:
Acquiring the Relics of Winifred and Beuno
BRIAN GoLDING 19
Croatia and the Borders of Christianity:
The Fortified Cistercian Abbey of Castrum Thopozka
ANA NoVAK 49
Alvastra in östergötland, Sweden:
A Medieval Political and Religious Centre of Power
MARIE HoLMSTRöM 81
Boundary Narratives and Tales of Teutonic Treachery on the
Frontier of Latin Christendom: The Early Fourteenth-Century
Disputes between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Ordensstaat
PAUL MILLIMAN 111
vi Contents
Contested Frontiers: Mendicant Provinces Between
Germany and Poland During the Late Middle Ages
HANS-JoACHIM SCHMIDT 129
Acculturation and Cultural Interactions
on the Frontiers
Skriðuklaustur Monastery in Medieval Iceland:
A Colony of Religiosity and Culture
STEINUNN KRISTJáNSDóTTIR 149
Religious and Society on the Borders of Christendom:
The Regular Canons in Medieval Catalonia
KAREN STöBER 173
on the Frontier of the orthodox and Latin World:
Religious Patronage in Medieval Frankish Greece
NICKy TSoUGARAKIS 193
Angevin Religious Patronage in the County of Maine:
The Assertion of Identity, Authority, and Legitimacy, 1110–51
KATHRyN DUTToN 211
Staging the Jew: Liturgical Drama and
Frontier-Building in Twelfth-Century Laon
KATI IHNAT 237
Index 263
Illustrations
Figures
Figure 1, p. 83. The monastery at Alvastra.
Figure 2, p. 86. View of Hästholmen in the foreground and Alvastra with the
omberg mountain in the background.
Figure 3, p. 87. View from the top of omberg Mountain.
Figure 4, p. 89. Aerial view of ‘Sverkersgården’ and the area of the large Christian
cemetery.
Figure 5, p. 92. Reconstruction of an ‘Eskilstuna coffin’.
Figure 6, p. 94. The chapel-baptistery at ostrow Lednicki.
Figure 7, p. 95. Figure 7. Aerial view of ‘Sverkerskapellet’.
Figure 8, p. 97. The well-preserved limestone vat in ‘Sverkerskapellet’.
Figure 9, p. 105. The tanning vats at Rievaulx.
viii ILLUSTRATIONS
Maps
Map 1, p. 85. Map of Sweden, the county of östergötland, Linköping, and
Alvastra.
Map 2, p. 88. A drawing of ‘Sverkersgården’, ‘Sverkerskapellet’, the abbey of
Alvastra, and omberg.
Map 3, p. 91. otto Frödin’s plan of ‘Sverkersgården’.
Map 4, p. 93. Three ‘fonts’ north of ‘Sverkersgården’ and omberg mountain.
Map 5, p. 96. otto Frödin’s drawing of ‘Sverkerskapellet’ with a channel and
the area of his excavation.
Map 6, p. 102. Map of the complex of ‘Sverkers kapellet’ with remnants from a
mill and other constructions.
Map 7, p. 103. Possible granges belonging to Alvastra.
Map 8, p. 153. The plan of Skriðuklaustur monastery and graveyard.
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank all the speakers and the participants of
the international conference ‘Monasteries on the Borders of Medieval
Europe: New Perspectives’ on 11–12 September 2008 at the University
of Leeds, which was the starting point for this volume. The funding for that con-
ference was generously provided by the AHRC/ESRC ‘Religion and Society’
programme grant ‘Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian
Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania’. We would also like to thank the
anonymous reviewers and the editorial board of the Medieval Church Studies
series for their comments and suggestions, and the staff at Brepols, especially
Guy Carney and Katharine Handel for their generous support of our project.