Background
Clifford Hugh Lawrence was born on the 28th of December 1921 in London, United Kingdom; the son of Earnest William and Dorothy Estelle (Mundy) Lawrence.
(Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic traditio...)
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the social landscape of the West, and their leaders figured as much in the political as on the spiritual map of the medieval world. In this book many of them, together with their supporters and critics, are presented to us and speak their minds to us. We are shown, for instance, the controversy between the Benedictines and the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the problems that confronted women in religious life. A detailed glossary offers readers a helpful vocabulary of the subject.
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(A compulsively readable account of the most mysterious ma...)
A compulsively readable account of the most mysterious manuscript in the world, one that has stumped the world’s greatest scholars and codebreakers. The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for a century. A small six inches by nine inches, but over two hundred pages long, with odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and naked women, it is written in so indecipherable a language and contains so complicated a code that mathematicians, book collectors, linguists, and historians alike have yet to solve the mysteries contained within. However, in The Friar and the Cipher, the acclaimed bibliophiles and historians Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone describe, in fascinating detail, the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century, pre-Copernican astronomer, was its author and that the perplexing alphabet was written in his hand. Along the way, they explain the many proposed solutions that scholars have put forth and the myriad attempts at labeling the manuscript's content, from Latin or Greek shorthand to Arabic numerals to ancient Ukrainian to a recipe for the elixir of life to good old-fashioned gibberish. As we journey across centuries, languages, and countries, we meet a cast of impassioned characters and case-crackers, including, of course, Bacon, whose own personal scientific contributions, Voynich author or not, were literally and figuratively astronomical. The Friar and the Cipher is a wonderfully entertaining and historically wide-ranging book that is one part The Code Book, one part Possession, and one part The Da Vinci Code—and will appeal to bibliophiles and laypeople alike.
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(The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orde...)
The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity, the development of new sciences and the creation of the first universities. The mendicant orders which developed around the charismatic figures of Saint Francis of Assisi (founder of the Franciscans) and Saint Dominic of Osma (founder of the Dominicans) confronted this challenge by encouraging preachers to go out into the world to do God's work, rather than retiring into enclosed monasteries. C.H. Lawrence here analyses the origins and growth of these orders, as well as the impact which they had upon the medieval world – in the areas of politics and education as well as religion. His study is essential reading for all scholars and students of medieval history.
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Clifford Hugh Lawrence was born on the 28th of December 1921 in London, United Kingdom; the son of Earnest William and Dorothy Estelle (Mundy) Lawrence.
In 1948, Clifford Lawrence received a degree of Master of Arts from the University of Oxford, England. In 1955, he graduated from the University of Oxford with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Clifford Lawrence served as major at British army from 1941 to 1946. From 1951-1952 he worked as a Lecturer at the University of London. Also Lawrence held several positions at the University of London including Reader of the history from 1962 to 1970; Dean of arts faculty, from 1975 to 1977; the Head of history department from 1980 to 1985 and Professor of medieval history from 1970 to 1987.
He worked as an External examiner of Reading at the University of Bristol and National University of Ireland in 1971-1972. Also between 1980 and 1992 C. Lawrence was a Board of government at Heythrop College, University London and a Vice-chairman at the same university from 1989 to 1992. Since 1987 he is a Professor emeritus at the University of London.
Lawrence was a member of Committee of the Institute for History Research in London, 1975-1980 and also a Press Council of Press United Kingdom, 1976-1980.
(Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic traditio...)
(A compulsively readable account of the most mysterious ma...)
(The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orde...)
Lawrence is a Fellow of Royal History Society and Society of Antiquaries.
Clifford Lawrence is married to Helen Maud Curran on the 11th of July 1953 and has 6 children.