Publication – Steven Vanderputten, "Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities. Collected Studies on Benedictine Monasticism, 1050-1150"

This volume collects ten previously published essays dealing with the development of Benedictine monasticism between c. 1050-1150. Relying on primary sources that originated in communities situated in the Southern Low Countries – one of the densest regions of Benedictine occupation and a crossroads of cultural and political influences – the essays are arranged in three thematic sections. The first looks at the societal background, methodologies, and intended outcomes of `Cluniac’ reform around 1100. The second investigates reactions to reform, both within the monastic sphere and by outsiders. In the third section the focus is on groups of monks, and how they, their supporters, and their enemies all developed strategies of self-representation and self-positioning in the face of growing competition over landed wealth, patronage, and positions of social privilege.

Table des matières :

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Introduction

Abbatial Leadership, Institutional Competition and the Solution(s) of Reform

I. Crises of Cenobitism. Abbatial Leadership and Monastic Competition in Late Eleventh-Century Flanders

II. How Reform Began. ‘Traditional’ Leadership and the Inception of Monastic Reform in Late Eleventh-Century Flanders

III. Fulcard’s Pigsty. Cluniac Reformers, Dispute Settlement and the Lower Aristocracy in Early Twelfth-Century Flanders

Managing Reformed Benedictinism

IV. Abbatial Obedience, Liturgical Reform, and the Threat of Monastic Autonomy at the Turn of the Twelfth Century

V. A Time of Great Confusion. Second-Generation Cluniac Reformers and Resistance to Monastic Centralisation in the County of Flanders (ca. 1125-1145)

Societal Discourse, Warfare, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities

VI. Monks, Knights, and the Enactment of Competing Social Realities in Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Flanders

VII. A Compromised Inheritance. Monastic Discourse and the Politics of Property Exchange in Early Twelfth-Century Flanders

VIII. Itinerant Lordship. Relic Translations and Social Change in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Flanders

IX. A Miracle of Jonatus in 1127. The Translatio sancti Jonati in Villa Saliacensi (BHL 4449) as Political Enterprise and Failed Hagiographical Project

X. Monastic Literate Practices in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Northern France

Informations pratiques :

Steven Vanderputten, Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities. Collected Studies on Benedictine Monasticism, 1050-1150, Berlin-Münster-Vienne-Zürich-Londres, 2013 (Vita regularis – Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen, 54). 320 pages. ISBN: 978-3-643-90429-4. Prix : 34,90 €.

Source de l’information : LIT-Verlag