Do Not Relinquish Your Offspring
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4052778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amelia Kennedy |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 139 |
| Pages | 123-144 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-8822639 |
| OpenAlex | W3124659485 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
This article explores issues of labor, community, and authority in medieval Europe through an examination of older Cistercian abbots and the practice of abbatial "retirement." While historians typically associate the Cistercians with greater acceptance of abbatial resignation, this article focuses on the fervent twelfth-century opposition to the practice. Many Cistercians asserted that abbatial retirement harmed the reputation of the monastic community and constituted a form of self-indulgence on the part of the abbot, whose soul would consequently be jeopardized as he prepared for death. This article argues that these attitudes reflected the importance of service and labor in later life, as well as the abbot's continued importance within the community. Medieval monasticism thus offers a concept of "active aging" focused on community and care of others. The thirteenth-century trend in favor of retirement stemmed from increasing institutionalization and new understandings of what constituted the "common good" for a monastic community
Ancient history · Indulgence · Institutionalisation · Monasticism · Political science · Promulgation · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Soul · Theology · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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The social model of disability
History of old age
Some Aspects of Social Security in Medieval England
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What Kinship Is-And Is Not
Busy Bodies
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