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Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform

By John Nightingale

Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform Social Sciences

Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform

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The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is comprehensively explored in this illuminating study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on the evidence from three of the region's greatest abbeys - Gorze, St Maximin, and St Evre - which played a central role in the monastic reform movement. This swept through the region in the 930s and is commonly named after Gorze.

Set within the context of the whole social structure and exercise of regional power in the early middle ages, the author demonstrates the vitality and importance of monasteries, focusing on their land transaction as well as their religious roles. He challenges accepted notions of monastic lordship and demonstrates the complexity of the two-way relationships between monasteries and their patrons, relationships which ensured the former a central place in the early medieval landscape.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2001-07-12
Publication Date:
2001-05-10
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198208359
ISBN13:
9780198208358
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
611 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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