The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany

ISBN-13: 9781108417310 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

Alison I. Beach

Opis

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

Recenzje

'… The Trauma of Monastic Reform is a valuable and insightful book.' Phyllis G. Jestice, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

Prologue: Felix Mater Constantia; 1. Raw cloth unto old garments: monastic reform as cultural trauma; 2. Because they destroyed the beauty of my house: trauma in the core community; 3. Rootstock of the living vines: the arrival of The Bearded Brothers; 4. Women among the Apostles? The complexities of the double monastery; 5. Cockle among the wheat: Petershausen as agent of reform; 6. A whole kingdom laid waste: Petershausen and its patrons in a violent landscape; Epilogue; Postscript; Appendix 1: a manuscript in a reformed landscape; Appendix 2: timeline of events.