Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330-1397): Monk, Scholar, Theologian, Diplomat

edited by Miriam Wendling

Amsterdam University Press, 2020
eISBN: 978-90-485-5065-4

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.1330–1397) led him from Norwich Cathedral Priory to Oxford, Avignon and Rome. Not only a monk of the Benedictine Order, he was also a scholar, theologian, diplomat and cardinal, and his work reflects the breadth of this multifaceted background. This volume presents recent research on Easton’s oeuvre, his diplomacy and the books that accompanied him on his travels. Amongst the works addressed in this volume are Easton’s Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis, his Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae and his Office for the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. Further evidence is also offered on his testimony during the Great Schism, on the dating of his copy of De pauperie Salvatoris, while two reassessments are made of his likeness, including his sepulchral monument at S. Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome and the Lutterworth wall painting. Finally, a catalogue of Easton’s important manuscript collection is also provided.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Figures and Examples

Joan Greatrex

Patrick Zutshi

Lynda Dennison

Fig. 2.1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 1r. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.2. Oxford, Merton College, MS 310, fol. 1r. By kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Fig. 2.3. Oxford, New College, MS 242, fol. 2r. By kind permission of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford

Fig. 2.4b. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 1r (detail). By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.5b. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 1r (detail). By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.6b. Oxford, Merton College, MS 310, fol. 1r (detail). By kind permission of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Fig. 2.7b. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 1r (detail). By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.8d. Cambridge, St John’s College, MS A 12, fol. 210v (detail). By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.9d. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 316, fol. 109v (detail). The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Fig. 2.10c. Oxford, New College, MS 242, fol. 83v (detail). By kind permission of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford

Fig. 2.11c. Oxford, Pembroke College, MS 2, fol. 11r (detail). By kind permission of the Master and Scholars of Pembroke College, Oxford

Fig. 2.12. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 88r. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.13. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 180, fol. 90r. By kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Fig. 2.14b. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 316, fol. 8r (detail). The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Miriam Gill

Nick Havely

Ann M. Hutchison

Miriam Wendling

Ex. 6.1. Accedunt laudes virginis

Ex. 6.2. Accendit ardor spiritus

Ex. 6.3. Venit ex te sanctissimus

Ex. 6.4. Non fuit Christus

Ex. 6.5. Surgens maria

Ex. 6.6. Incipits

Claudia Bolgia

Fig. 7.1. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Bequest of Mrs A.M. Minturn, 1890), manuscript leaf with Incipit of the Office of the Visitation, detail, from an antiphonary. Tempera, ink and gold on parchment, Venice, c.1400. Photo: www.metmuseum.org

Fig. 7.2. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, tomb of Cardinal Adam Easton (d. 1397). Photo © Alinari, Firenze

Fig. 7.6. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, tomb of Cardinal Adam Easton, short side of bier, foliated cross, detail. Photo: author

Fig. 7.9. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, tomb of Cardinal Adam Easton, gisant, head (frontal view). Photo © Vasari, Roma

Fig. 7.12. Rome, Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, marble screen from the dismembered tabernacle of the Madonna Advocata in S. Maria in Aracoeli, the donor’s wife, Caterina Felici, 1372. Photo: author

Fig. 7.14. Rome, S. Paolo fuori le mura, cloister, marble statue of Pope Boniface IX, head, c. late 1390s–early 1400. Photo: author

Fig. 7.15. Rome, S. Maria in Trastevere, tomb of Cardinal Philippe d’Alençon (d. 1397), gisant, head. Photo © Vasari, Roma

Fig. 7.16. Reconstruction of tomb of Cardinal Philippe d’Alençon. Rome, S. Maria in Trastevere. From Kühlenthal, pl. 24

Fig. 7.19. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, nunnery, Madonna and Child, probably from the tomb of Adam Easton. Photo © Vasari, Roma

Fig. 7.21. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, nunnery, angel carrying candelabrum, probably from the tomb of Adam Easton. Photo © Vasari, Roma

Fig. 7.23. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, nunnery, angel carrying candelabrum, probably from the tomb of Adam Easton. Photo © Vasari, Roma

Fig. 7.24. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, left aisle, end wall, small pillar flanking the altar. Photo: author

Fig. 7.25. Rome, S. Cecilia in Trastevere, left aisle, end wall, small door. Photo: author

Fig. 7.26. Vatican City, Vatican Grottoes, tomb of Pope Urban VI (d. 1389) from Old St Peter’s. Photo: author

Patrick Zutshi

Index

Index of Manuscripts

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