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The creation of a past for themselves was of pressing importance to religious communities, enabling them to increase their status and legitimise their existence. This book examines the process in a group of communities from the southern part of Flanders (the monks of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer, the community of Saint-Rictrude at Marchiennes and the canons of Saint-Amé at Douai) over a period running from the ninth to the end of the eleventh century. The central contention is that the communities produced their narratives (history, hagiography, charter materials) for a specific time and purpose, frequently as a response to or intended resolution of internal or external crises. The book also discusses how the circumstances which triggered narrative production had an impact not only on the content but also on the form of the texts.

religious orders --- Christian religious orders --- anno 800-1199 --- Flanders --- Monasteries --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Monastères --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Flanders (France) --- Belgium --- Flandre (France) --- Belgique --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- 271 "09/10" --- 271.1 <44 SAINT-BERTIN> --- 235.3 --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"09/10" --- Benedictijnen--Frankrijk--SAINT-BERTIN --- Hagiografie --- Church history. --- 271.1 <44 SAINT-BERTIN> Benedictijnen--Frankrijk--SAINT-BERTIN --- Monastères --- Monastic and religious life --- Flanders (County) --- Monasteries - France - Flanders - History --- Bertinus ab. Sithivensis --- Rictrudis abb. Marchianensis --- Maurontus ab. in Belgio --- Amatus ep. Sedunensis --- Flandre --- Flanders (France) - History --- Benedictine monasteries --- Saint-Bertin (Monastery : Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Abbaye de Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Benedictines --- Historiography. --- Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Marchiennes-Ville (France) --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- Abbaye Sainte-Rictrude de Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbaye de Sainte-Rictrude de Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbaye Sainte-Rictrude à Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbaye Sainte-Rictrude (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbaye de Sainte-Rictrude (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Sainte-Rictrude de Marchiennes (Monastery : Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbaye bénédictine de Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Marchiennes (Monastery : Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Monastère de Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbey of Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Saint-Rictrude at Marchiennes (Monastery : Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbey of Ste-Rictrude in Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Abbey of Ste-Rictrude (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Community of Saint-Rictrude at Marchiennes (Marchiennes-Ville, France) --- Saint-Omer, France. --- Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France). --- Monasterium Sancti Bertini (Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- St-Bertin (Monastery : Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Sithiu (Monastery : Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Abbey of Saint-Bertin (Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France) --- Marchiennes (France) --- Marchiennes-la-Ville (France) --- Saint-Omer, France