Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West - Grand Format

Zu dieser Reihe : Vita regularis liefert Beiträge zur weiteren Erforschung regularen Lebens in Klöstern und Orden des Mittelalters. Im Vordergrund stehen institutionsgeschichtliche Aspekte, die insbesondere auf Phänomene der Organisation und des normativen Bestandes, auf spirituelle und pragmatische Leitideen sowie auf Beziehungen zum sozialen und geistigen Umfeld im geschichtlichen Wandel zielen.
Zu diesem Band : 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 mona-stics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.