Rhinoceros Bound : : Cluny in the Tenth Century / / Barbara H. Rosenwein.
In the tenth century the great monastery at Cluny rose as a bulwark of strength and order in the midst of social chaos. Within its protective walls emerged a model of restraint: the "rhinoceros bound." The author show how the instability of everyday life was replaced at Cluny with an inter...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on the Maps
- Introduction
- 1. THE LINEAGE OF CLUNIAC STUDIES
- 2. LOOKING AT THE TENTH CENTURY: The Historians' Perception of Cluny 5 Benefacto
- 4. LOOKING IN: The Cluniac Perception of the Monastery
- 5. LOOKING AT CLUNY IN CONTEXT
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index