Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages : : Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform / / Steven Vanderputten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Vanderputten, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Imagining Richard in Medieval and Modern Historiography
• 2. Ecclesiastical Office, Religious Virtuosity, and the Apostolic Imperative
• 3. Imagining Saint-Vanne
• 4. “Founder and Head of Many Monasteries”
• 5. Converting the World
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Chronology of Major Events in Richard’s Life
• Appendix B: The Life of Roding
• Appendix C: Monastic Reading at Saint-Vanne
• Appendix D: Overview of Richard’s Abbacies Outside of Saint-Vanne
• Appendix E: Overview of Richard’s “Priors”
• Appendix F: Overview of Richard’s Successors
• Bibliography
• Index