Medieval monks and their world : : ideas and realities : studies in honor of Richard E. Sullivan / / edited by David Blanks, Michael Frassetto, and Amy Livingstone.

• Superior document: Brill's series in church history, v. 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Sullivan, Richard E. 1921-2005.; Blanks, David R., 1961-; Frassetto, Michael.; Livingstone, Amy, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history, v. 25; Brill's Series in Church History 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume examines the world of the medieval monk. The first section of the volume is organized around the theme of monks and the world and explores the intersections between the secular and sacred. The second section is concerned with the ideological or intellectual lives of medieval monks. These essays examine the ideas that were important to monks and that shaped the intellectual discourse of the Middle Ages. Contributors include: David R. Blanks, Constance B. Bouchard, Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Daniel F. Callahan, M.A. Claussen, John J. Contreni, Edith Wilks Dolnikowski, Michael Frassetto, Amy Livingstone, Kathleen Mitchell, and Steven A. Stofferahn.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / David Blanks , Michael Frassetto and Amy Livingstone -- We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants / Amy Livingstone -- Redrawing a Portrait of Egyptian Monasticism / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom -- “And Even Today”: Carolingian Monasticism and the Miracula sancti Germani of Heiric of Auxerre / John J. Contreni -- A New Majesty: Paschasius Radbertus, Exile, and the Masters’ Honor / Steven A. Stofferahn -- Ademar of Chabannes, Charlemagne and the Pilgrimage to Jerusalem of 1033 / Daniel F. Callahan -- “Feudalism,” Cluny, and the Investiture Controversy / Constance B. Bouchard -- Brother Monk: Monks and their Family in the Chartrain, 1000–1200 AD / Amy Livingstone -- Practical Exegesis: The Acts of the Apostles, Chrodegang’s Regula canonicorum, and Early Carolingian Reform / M.A. Claussen -- The Gentle Voices of Teachers: Carolingian Eucharistic Thought and the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes / Michael Frassetto -- The Wrong Sort of Mentor: Heterodoxy and Anti-clericalism in Languedoc / David Blanks -- The Early Fourteenth-Century Context for the Doctrine of Divine Foreknowledge in Wyclif ’s Latin Sermons / Edith Wilks Dolnikowski -- The Academic as Public Historian / Kathleen Mitchell -- Notes on Contributors / David Blanks , Michael Frassetto and Amy Livingstone -- Index / David Blanks , Michael Frassetto and Amy Livingstone -- Brill’s Series in Church History / Wim Janse.