The Congregation of Tiron : : Monastic Contributions to Trade and Communication in Twelfth-Century France and Britain / / Ruth Harwood Cline.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Cline, Ruth Harwood,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Tiron was a reformed Benedictine congregation founded ca. 1109 by Bernard of Abbeville. Though little known to medieval and religious historians, this in-depth study shows how it expanded from obscurity in the forests of the Perche to become an international congregation with headquarters in Chartres and Paris and abbeys and priories in France and the British Isles. After famine drove craftsmen to his monastery, Bernard sold their wares to survive, and the congregation become noted for building, crafts, education, and horse-breeding. Tiron preceded the Cistercians in Britain and traded in rising towns, and by 1147 it had a centrally-controlled network of riverine and coastal properties connecting its production hubs with towns and ports. Its expansion prefigured the Angevin trading zone and the French nation. Subsequently Tiron endured wartime ravages, funded illustrious commendatory abbots, and merged with the Congregation of Saint-Maur, before closing in 1792.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. The Appearance of Tiron within Church Reform and Monastic Reform from the Eleventh Century -- Chapter 2. The Tironensian Identity -- Chapter 3. Bernard of Abbeville and Tiron's Foundation -- Chapter 4. William of Poitiers and His Successors -- Chapter 5. Expansion in France -- Chapter 6. Expansion in the British Isles -- Chapter 7. The Later History -- Appendix 1. Comparison of the Papal Confirmations -- Appendix 2. Disputes -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Tironensian Places -- General Index