Product Description: During the high Middle Ages, the bishopric of Liège found itself at a cultural crossroads between the German Empire and the French lordships. The Liègeois themselves argued that Gaul considers us its most distant inhabitants, Germany as nearby citizens...read more

Product Description: Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation of monastic leaders through an in-depth study of one of its most prominent figures, Richard of Saint-Vanne...read more

Product Description: The miscellaneous corpus of texts commissioned by Bishop Gerard I of Cambrai (1012-1051) constitutes one of the primary means of accessing substantial parts of the Low Countries' political, cultural, and religious history in the early eleventh century...read more

Product Description: The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid development known as reforms...read more

Product Description: The role of monastic institutions in society during the Central Middle Ages has been much debated in medieval studies. Some scholars saw monasticism as the principal motivator of economic, social, intellectual, and "spiritual" progress in human society, while others regarded monastic ideology as fundamentally antisocial and oriented toward itself...read more

Product Description: This collection of papers delves into the fascinating methods with which monastic groups of the central Middle Ages practised modes of oral communication. Although traditionally defined as a literate environment, Western monastic culture depended on a range of communicative practices which was just as large, and in some ways more sophisticated in its diversity, than that of other groups of society...read more

Product Description: Part I - Religion & Conversion: The Conversion of the Low Countries and Church Institutions until c. 1070 - The Church in the Low Countries between Gregorian Reform and Avignon - Conversion: A Never-Ending Process Part II - Hermits & Canons: The Regular Canons and Some Socio-Religious Aspects About the Year 1100 - Hermits and Regular Canons in the Twelfth Century Part III - Power & Ideology: Justus ut Palma...read more