Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh CenturyBRILL, 1997 - 309 pages Examining a central change in European religious thought, this study investigates the changing roles of monks in society to help understand the reform of Christian ideology. It is based on extant monastic writings, including hagiography and polemics. The book explains the diversification of monasticism in this period as an outgrowth of a shift toward greater interest in lay religious life. Focusing on the German Empire, it examines monastic values in such areas as missionary work, public preaching, pilgrimage, and the polemics of the gregorian reform. The sections on the role of polemic as a catalyst and reflection of monastic change and on missionary activities as part of ecclesiastical reform are especially important for the historian of religion. The book fills an important gap in the study of central European monasticism. |
Table des matières
Chapter One Tenthcentury monks and social | 23 |
Chapter Two Missionaries and new monastic dreams | 44 |
the recluses | 90 |
monks and reform in | 128 |
The monk as spiritual adept | 134 |
Entanglement with ecclesiastical reform | 137 |
The revival of eremitism | 141 |
Romuald of Ravenna and the Camaldolesi | 151 |
Peter Damian versus the Tuscan hermit | 217 |
The quandary of ecclesiastical reform | 224 |
The evidence of Vallombrosa | 227 |
A community of reformers | 233 |
Servants of the papacy? | 245 |
Chapter Seven AntiGregorian propaganda and the monastic crisis | 248 |
Hirsau as model for worldreforming monasticism | 249 |
The polemic against Hirsau | 255 |
Monks and caritas | 160 |
Chapter Five The new monasticism of Lotharingia in the early eleventh century | 170 |
Lotharingian monasticism and the turn to the world | 173 |
Hypocrisy and schism | 183 |
Gregory the Great and the active life | 190 |
Invasion of the monastery | 195 |
Is monasticism enough? | 200 |
Chapter Six Monks and the Roman reform | 210 |
Monks the reformed papacy and ecclesiastical reform | 212 |
The disavowal of a radical past | 262 |
Hildebrand the false monk | 265 |
The case for Gregory | 273 |
The monastic ordo and Christianity | 275 |
Conclusion | 278 |
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