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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. Charismatic leaders by sheer force of will, and by assiduously recruiting the support of the ecclesiastical and lay elites, pushed monasticism forward toward reform, remediating the inevitable decline of discipline and government in these institutions. A lack of concrete information on what happened at individual monasteries is not regarded as a significant problem, as long as there is the possibility to reconstruct the reformers' 'program.'’ While this general picture makes for a compelling narrative, it doesn’t necessarily hold up when one looks closely at the history of specific institutions. In Monastic Reform as Process, Steven Vanderputten puts the history of monastic reform to the test by examining the evidence from seven monasteries in Flanders, one of the wealthiest principalities of northwestern Europe, between 900 and 1100. He finds that the reform of a monastery should be studied not as an "exogenous shock" but as an intentional blending of reformist ideals with existing structures and traditions. He also shows that reformist government was cumulative in nature, and many of the individual achievements and initiatives of reformist abbots were only possible because they built upon previous achievements. Rather than looking at reforms as "flashpoint events," we need to view them as processes worthy of study in their own right. Deeply researched and carefully argued, Monastic Reform as Process will be essential reading for scholars working on the history of monasteries more broadly as well as those studying the phenomenon of reform throughout history.

Christian religious orders --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 900-999 --- anno 1000-1099 --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History --- Histoire --- Flanders (France) --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Flandre (France) --- Flandre (Belgique) --- Church history --- Church history. --- Histoire Religieuse --- Histoire religieuse --- Monarchisme et ordres religieux chrétiens --- Flandre (Comté) --- -271 <493> --- 271 "04/14" --- -Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- -Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--België --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--Middeleeuwen --- -Flanders (France) --- -Flanders (Belgium) --- -Church history. --- -History --- Flandre --- 271 <493> --- Monachism --- Orders, Religious --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--België --- Flandre française --- French Flanders --- Flanders (County) --- Nord (France : Department) --- Vlaanderen (Belgium) --- Région flamande (Belgium) --- Flemish Region (Belgium) --- Vlaams Gewest (Belgium) --- Flandre (Belgium) --- Monasticism and religious orders - France - Flanders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monasticism and religious orders - Belgium - Flanders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monastères --- Flanders (France) - Church history --- Flanders (Belgium) - Church history

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History of Europe --- Christian church history --- anno 700-799 --- anno 800-899 --- Carlovingians --- Carolingians --- Carolingiens --- Carolinians --- Droit franc --- Empire carolingien --- Empire d'Occident --- Empire franc --- Franc [Empire ] --- Francs--Droit --- Franken--Recht --- Frankisch recht --- Frankish law --- Franks--Law --- Karolingers --- Law [Frankish ] --- Occident [Empire d' ] --- Recht [Frankisch ] --- Saint Empire romain germanique -- 800-924 (Carolingiens) --- Geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen --- Histoire du Moyen Age --- Histoire ecclésiastique --- Kerkgeschiedenis --- Church and state --- Eglise et Etat --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Church history --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire religieuse --- 930.86.01 --- -Church history --- -Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- -History --- Carolingians. --- -Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- -930.86.01 --- 930.86.01 Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis:--Middeleeuwen --- -Carlovingians --- Christianity and state --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Kingdom of God --- History of doctrines --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Church and state - History - To 1500 --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

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This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question "To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a human resource' to the development of reformed monastic communities in the ninth- to twelfth-century west?" Covering a broad geographical area, papers consider one or several of three key points of interest: the direct contribution of abbots and abbesses to the shaping of reformed realities; their influence over future modes of leadership; and the way in which later generations of monastics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.

Abbots --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Church history --- 271 "00/14" --- Christianity --- Superiors, Religious --- 271 "00/14" Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"00/14" --- 271 "00/14" Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--?"00/14" --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"00/14" --- Ordres religieux. Congregations religieuses. Monachisme--?"00/14" --- History --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monachisme --- --IXe-XIIe s., --- Abbots. --- Abbés --- Abbesses --- Vie religieuse et monastique --- Ordres monastiques et religieux chrétiens --- Religious leaders. --- Abt. --- Äbtissin. --- Humankapital. --- Klosterreform. --- Réforme. --- Middle Ages. --- 600-1500 --- IXe-XIIe s., 801-1200 --- Abbés --- Ordres monastiques et religieux chrétiens --- Äbtissin. --- Réforme.

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In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia—a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions. Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their leaders, as well as the clerics and the laymen and -women sympathetic to their cause, to construct localized narratives of self, preserve or expand their agency as religious communities, and remain involved in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of the laity amid changing contexts and expectations on the part of the Church and secular authorities. Rather than a "dark age" in which female monasticism withered under such factors as the assertion of male religious authority, the secularization of its institutions, and the precipitous decline of their intellectual and spiritual life, Vanderputten finds that the post-Carolingian period witnessed a remarkable adaptability among these women. Through texts, objects, archaeological remains, and iconography, Dark Age Nunneries offers scholars of religion, medieval history, and gender studies new ways to understand the experience of women of faith within the Church and across society during this era.

Convents --- Convents. --- Monastic and religious life of women --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- History --- Middle Ages. --- To 1500. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Church history --- Monastic and religious life of women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monasticism and religious orders for women - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Convents - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Monachisme --- Femme --- Vie religieuse --- Ordre religieux --- Couvent --- Europe - Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Convents and nunneries --- Nunneries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Women in Christianity --- Nuns --- Sisterhoods --- Monastic life --- Spiritual life --- Catholic Church --- Christianity --- woman's monasticism, medieval history, lotharingia, gender, reform. --- Monachisme féminin --- Moyen Age --- Christian religious orders --- Christian church history --- anno 800-899 --- anno 900-999 --- anno 1000-1099

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