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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. During his lifetime, Richard (d. 1046) served as abbot of numerous monasteries, which gained him a reputation as a highly successful administrator and reformer of monastic discipline. As Vanderputten shows, however, a more complex view of Richard's career, spirituality, and motivations enables us to better evaluate his achievements as church leader and reformer. Vanderputten analyzes various accounts of Richard’s life, contemporary sources that are revealing of his worldview and self-conception, and the evidence relating to his actions as a monastic reformer and as a promoter of conversion. Richard himself conceived of his life as an evolving commentary on a wide range of issues relating to individual spirituality, monastic discipline, and religious leadership. This commentary, which combined highly conservative and revolutionary elements, reached far beyond the walls of the monastery and concerned many of the issues that would divide the church and its subjects in the later eleventh century.

Abbots --- Religious leaders --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Christian leadership --- Abbés --- Chefs religieux --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Leadership chrétien --- Biography. --- Biography --- History --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Richard, --- France --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Catholic Church --- History. --- Abbés --- Leadership chrétien --- Abbots - France - Biography --- Religious leaders - France - Biography --- Monasticism and religious orders - France - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Christian leadership - Catholic Church - History --- Richard, - Abbot of Saint-Vanne, - -1046 --- France - Church history - 987-1515

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What is the base of religious leadership and how has it changed over the centuries? This volume presents a range of actors, both men and women, who, in a variety of historical contexts, claimed to be the living voices or intermediaries of God. The essays analyse the foundation of their authoritative claims and ask how and how far they succeeded in securing obedience from the Christians to whom they addressed their message. Religious authority is not understood as a monolithic entity but as something derived from many sources and claims. Whatever the national background, whether ordained or supposedly appointed through divine intervention, the histories of the people portrayed underline the long-term manifestations and multifaceted nature of Christian identity.

Christian leadership --- Leadership chrétien --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- 262.12 --- 260.322.1 --- 305 --- Church leadership --- Lay leadership --- Church work --- Leadership --- History. --- Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch --- Individuele bisschop. Leergezag van de bisschop, de diocesane synode, de theologieprofessoren, de predikanten en pastoors --- Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Conferences - Meetings --- 305 Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- 260.322.1 Individuele bisschop. Leergezag van de bisschop, de diocesane synode, de theologieprofessoren, de predikanten en pastoors --- 262.12 Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch --- Leadership chrétien