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A la recherche d’alternatives pour le verbo et exemplo : quelques réflections sur le problème des absences abbatiales aux Xe-XIe siècles Ghent University
Dismantling the Medieval : early modern perceptions of a female convent's past Ghent University
Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxières abbey with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent’s narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually ...
The emergence of the Ecclesia Cluniacensis Ghent University
They lived under that rule as do those who have succeeded them : simultaneity and conflict in the foundation narratives of a french women’s convent (10th-18th centuries) Ghent University
While foundation accounts of medieval religious institutions have been the focus of intense scholarly interest for decades, so far there has been comparatively little interest in how successive versions related to each other in the perception of medieval and early modern observers. This essay considers that question via a case study of three such narratives about the 930s creation of Bouxières Abbey, a convent of women religious in France’s ...
Columbanus wore a single cowl, not a double one : the Vita Deicoli and the legacy of Columbanian monasticism at the turn of the first millennium Ghent University
This article analyses the Life of St. Deicolus of Lure, a monastery in the Alsace region of east France, written by the cleric Theodoric in the 970s or 980s. It argues that the text contains a notable amount of information on the existence, methodology, and limitations of an ill-understood aspect of monastic integration around the year 1000. Relying on an analysis of the narrative's second prologue as well as scattered comments elsewhere in the ...
'Against the custom' : hagiographical rewriting and female abbatial leadership at mid-eleventh-century Remiremont Ghent University
The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of a recently identified campaign of hagiographic writing from the mid-eleventh-century monastery of Remiremont to reconstruct how this female convent positioned itself at a time when clerical resistance to the lifestyle and autonomy of non-Benedictine communities was gaining momentum. In a first stage it looks at the three hagiographies from this campaign and how they reveal a cohesive ...
'I would be rather pleased if the world were to be rid of monks' : resistance to Cluniac integration in late eleventh- and early twelfth-century France Ghent University
This paper takes a bottom-up look at Cluniac integration in the decades either side of the year 1100 in order to explore the diverse institutional, contextual and personal dynamics at play. Taking as its case study the French diocese of Saintes, it charts the transformation of the ecclesia Cluniacensis, the impact on relations with monastic houses in the region and the response by diverse stakeholders. Local groups of monks and their patrons ...