Monastic reform as process :

Vanderputten, Steven.

Monastic reform as process : realities and representations in medieval Flanders, 900-1100 / Steven Vanderputten. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Careful study of reforms in the early tenth century at seven Benedictine monastaries of the Lotharingian "mixed observance" at: Saint Bertin, Bergues-Saint-Winnoc, Marchiennes, Saint-Amand, Saint-Bavo, Saint-Peter, and Saint-Vaast. Strives to demonstrate a more nuanced view of monastic reforms of this time period.


In English.

0801468116 9780801468117

10.7591/9780801468117 doi

22573/ctt1jrf27 JSTOR


600-1500


Monasticism and religious orders--History--France--Flanders--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monasticism and religious orders--History--Belgium--Flanders--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
HISTORY--Medieval.
RELIGION--Institutions & Organizations.
Monasticism and religious orders--Middle Ages.
Klosterreform
Ordensleben


Flanders (France)--Church history.
Flanders (Belgium)--Church history.
Belgium--Flanders.
France--Flanders.
Flandern


Electronic books
Church history
History

BX2614.F55 / V36 2013

271.009493/109021