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Monastic reform as process : realities and representations in medieval Flanders, 900-1100 / Steven Vanderputten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801468100
  • 0801468108
  • 0801468116
  • 9780801468117
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Monastic reform as process.DDC classification:
  • 271.009493/109021 23
LOC classification:
  • BX2614.F55
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.63
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Contents:
Corporate memories of reform -- The "failed" reforms of the tenth century -- The "dark age" of Flemish monasticism -- Introducing the new monasticism -- Processes of reformist government -- Shaping reformed identities -- The "waning" of reformed monasticism.
Summary: In this book, the author puts the history of monastic reform to the test by examining the evidence from seven monasteries in Flanders, one of the wealthiest principalities of northwestern Europe, between 900 and 1100. He finds that the reform of a monastery should be studied not as an "exogenous shock" but as an intentional blending of reformist ideals with existing structures and traditions. He also shows that reformist government was cumulative in nature, and many of the individual achievements and initiatives of reformist abbots were only possible because they built upon previous achievements. This book studies reforms in the early tenth century at seven Benedictine monasteries of the Lotharingian "mixed observance" at Saint Bertin, Bergues-Saint-Winnoc, Marchiennes, Saint-Amand, Saint-Bavo, Saint-Peter, and Saint-Vaast

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-233) and index.

Corporate memories of reform -- The "failed" reforms of the tenth century -- The "dark age" of Flemish monasticism -- Introducing the new monasticism -- Processes of reformist government -- Shaping reformed identities -- The "waning" of reformed monasticism.

Print version record.

In this book, the author puts the history of monastic reform to the test by examining the evidence from seven monasteries in Flanders, one of the wealthiest principalities of northwestern Europe, between 900 and 1100. He finds that the reform of a monastery should be studied not as an "exogenous shock" but as an intentional blending of reformist ideals with existing structures and traditions. He also shows that reformist government was cumulative in nature, and many of the individual achievements and initiatives of reformist abbots were only possible because they built upon previous achievements. This book studies reforms in the early tenth century at seven Benedictine monasteries of the Lotharingian "mixed observance" at Saint Bertin, Bergues-Saint-Winnoc, Marchiennes, Saint-Amand, Saint-Bavo, Saint-Peter, and Saint-Vaast

In English.