Reform, conflict, and the shaping of corporate identities: collected studies on Benedictine monasticism in medieval Flanders, c. 1050 – c. 1150 Universiteit Gent
his 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, ...