Imagining religious leadership in the Middle Ages : Richard of Saint-Vanne and the politics of reform /
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 generati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Imagining Richard in medieval and modern historiography
- Ecclesiastical office, religious virtuosity, and the apostolic imperative
- Imagining Saint-Vanne
- Founder and head of many monasteries
- Converting the laity.