Trauma of Monastic Reform - Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

List of contents

Prologue: Felix Mater Constantia; 1. Raw cloth unto old garments: monastic reform as cultural trauma; 2. Because they destroyed the beauty of my house: trauma in the core community; 3. Rootstock of the living vines: the arrival of The Bearded Brothers; 4. Women among the Apostles? The complexities of the double monastery; 5. Cockle among the wheat: Petershausen as agent of reform; 6. A whole kingdom laid waste: Petershausen and its patrons in a violent landscape; Epilogue; Postscript; Appendix 1: a manuscript in a reformed landscape; Appendix 2: timeline of events.

About the author

Alison I. Beach is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University, Columbus. She is the author of Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Cambridge, 2004) and is also editor, with Isabelle Cochelin, of the forthcoming two-volume Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West for the Cambridge New History Series.

Summary

This is a study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany. While the book will be of interest to specialists in medieval history, religion, gender, and manuscript studies, its readability will make it accessible also to undergraduate students and other non-specialists.

Product details

• Authors: Alison I Beach, Alison I. Beach, Alison I. (Ohio State University) Beach, Beach Alison I.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108417310
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41731-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Germany, RELIGION / History, Christianity, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Church history, Christian communities & monasticism