A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47013-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 882 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to European History

Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny’s history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians.

Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance B. Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bruce, Scott G.

Vanderputten, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Steven Vanderputten and Scott G. Bruce

PART 1: A Brief History of Cluny and Cluniac Monasticism

1 Tenth-Century Cluny

Isabelle Rosé

2 The Emergence of the Ecclesia Cluniacensis

Steven Vanderputten

3 Challenges of the Twelfth Century

Marc Saurette

4 Cluny in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond

Denyse Riche

PART 2: Cluniac Identities

5 Imagining Early Cluny in Abbatial Biographies

Steven Vanderputten

6 Shaping Cluniac Devotion

Susan Boynton

7 Archaeology and the Abbey of Cluny

Anne Baud

8 Shaping Cluniac Memory

Sébastien Barret

PART 3: The Cares of the Cloister

9 Abbatial Lordship

Robert F. Berkhofer III

10 Discipline and the Problem of Cluny’s Customaries

Isabelle Cochelin

11 The General Chapter and Cluniac Legislation

Michael Hänchen and Gert Melville

12 Cluny and Religious Women

Eliana Magnani

PART 4: Beyond the Cloister

13 Cluny and Lay Patronage

Constance B. Bouchard

14 The Problem of Cluniac Exemption

Benjamin Pohl

15 Cluny and the Crusades

Scott G. Bruce

16 The Relics of Cluny

Scott G. Bruce

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott G. Bruce, Ph.D. (2000), Princeton University, is Professor of Medieval History at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He has published several books on the history of Cluny, most recently (with Christopher A. Jones) The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus: A Twelfth-Century Cluniac Poem on Prayer for the Dead (Brepols, 2016).

Steven Vanderputten, Ph.D. (2000), Ghent University, is Professor in the History of the Early and High Middle Ages at Ghent University. He has published extensively on the history of monastic life in the medieval West, among other places in his latest monograph Medieval Monasticisms. Forms and Experiences of the Monastic Life in the Latin West (De Gruyter/Oldenbourg, 2020).