Prayer and Thought in Monastic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Benedicta Ward SLG

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 Rethinking the History of Monasticism East and West: A Modest tour d’horizon
	Ex Aegypto lux?
	Asceticism and monasticism in Syria, Mesopotamia and Cappadocia
	The city a desert
	Benedict, Gregory the Great and Monte Cassino
	The ‘Second Benedict’ and the new monastic normal
	Conclusion
2 Not by Bread Alone: St Brendan Meets Paul, the Irish Spiritual Hermit (Navigatio
Sancti Brendani, Chapter xxvi)
3 Theology and the Paschal Controversy: Bede’s Case Against the British Church
4 Bede’s View of the Place of the Eucharist in Anglo-Saxon Life: The Evidence of the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
	A historiographical gap
	Praying for Bede
	Eucharist and sacerdotal identity
	The value of ‘altars’
	The Eucharist and intercession pro uiuis
	Those ‘who sleep in the sleep of peace’
	The Eucharist as uiaticum
	Purity and gender
	Conclusion
5 Women, Prayer and Preaching in the Early English Church
	Bede On Habakkuk
	Female religious houses in early Anglo-Saxon England
	Bede and the educated woman
	Boniface and the educated woman
	Women, prayer and preaching in the early English Church
6 Praying the Psalter in Carolingian Times: What Was Supposed to Be Going on in the Minds of Monks?
7 ‘The Brother Who May Wish to Pray by Himself’: Sense of Self in Carolingian Prayers of Private Devotion
8 St Boniface, Monk and Missioner
	Curriculum vitae
	Chronological outline
		1 Beginnings
		2 Boniface the bishop, archbishop and papal legate
		3 The final stage
	Vynfreth, scholar and grammarian
	Problems facing Bonif
		1 Missioners in a foreign land
		2 Survivals of paganism
		3 Boniface and the Frankish bishops
		4 Boniface’s denunciations
		5 Personal friendships
	Conclusion
9 Turning the World Upside-Down: St Peter Damian’s Theology of the Spiritual Life
10 John of Fécamp and Anselm of Bec: A New Language of Prayer
	Who was John of Fé camp?
	Anselm’s prayer to Jesus
	John of Fé camp versus Anselm of Bec
11 ‘Minds Wandering’ and ‘Monastic Stability’ in the Early Monastic Letters of Anselm of Bec
	An ‘art’ of monastic letter-writing?
	Opportunities to send letters: Carriers
	Recipients of Anselm’s monastic correspondence and questions of stability
	Loving forgiveness of errant monks
	Th e inner circle and the understandingson which monks left Bec and stayed away
	The inner circle and the understandingson which monks left Bec and stayed away
	Putting up with separation: Endurance will be rewarded with meeting in heaven
	Conclusion
12 ‘Between Dialectic and the Sacred Scripture: Anselm of Canterbury and the Bible’
13 Miracles and the Crusading Mind: Monastic Meditations on Jerusalem’s Conquest
14 Reading Saints Lives, in the Light of Miracle Stories in John of Forde’s Life of Wulfric of Haselbury
	Witnessing to truth
	William FitzWalter and the cutting of the hauberk: The incredible story
	Brother William the hospitaller: Friend and intermediary
	Henry of Waverley: The prophetic gifts
	The healing of Drogo de Munci: A many-authored tale
	Dialogue and truth
	Conclusion
15 The Eye of Reason – The Eye of Love: ‘Divine Learning and Affective
Prayer’ in the Thought of William of Saint Thierry
16 Concerning Academic Translation and the Latin of Conrad of Eberbach
	The form and function of academic translation
	The possibilities for collaborative translation
17 ‘Desire for the Eternal Country’ : The Laity and the Wider World of Monastic Prayer in Medieval England
18 Universities: Friend or Foe?
19 Late Medieval Mysticism: Visionary Writing as a Mode of Thought
20 John Wesley and William Law: The Founding of Two Contrasting Religious Communities in the Eighteenth Century
	William Law and his religious community
	Wesley’s religious community
	Three characteristics of the two religious communities
	The right use of money
	Care of the poor
	Singing
	Conclusion
21 The Beloved: The Messianic Figure of the Song of Songs
	The description of the beloved 5. 10-16
	Biblical, apocalyptic and pseudepigraphical links
	The early jewish mystical literature
	The Beloved resurfaces
	The author of the Song of Songs
	The Odes of Solomon
	The despatch of the beloved
22 Benedicta Ward, SLG, in a Few Words: Nun, Scholar, Teacher
Select Bibliography of Works by Sr Benedicta Ward, SLG, MA, DPhil
Index of Modern Authors
General Index