Title Imagining religious leadership in the Middle Ages : Richard of Saint-Vanne and the politics of reform / Steven Vanderputten

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary 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 generation of monastic leaders through an in-depth study of one of its most prominent figures, Richard of Saint-Vanne. During his lifetime, Richard (d. 1046) served as abbot of numerous monasteries, which gained him a reputation as a highly successful administrator and reformer of monastic discipline. As Vanderputten shows, however, a more complex view of Richard's career, spirituality, and motivations enables us to better evaluate his achievements as church leader and reformer. Vanderputten analyzes various accounts of Richard's life, contemporary sources that are revealing of his worldview and self-conception, and the evidence relating to his actions as a monastic reformer and as a promoter of conversion. Richard himself conceived of his life as an evolving commentary on a wide range of issues relating to individual spirituality, monastic discipline, and religious leadership. This commentary, which combined highly conservative and revolutionary elements, reached far beyond the walls of the monastery and concerned many of the issues that would divide the church and its subjects in the later eleventh century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Richard, Abbot of Saint-Vanne, -1046. SUBJECT Richard, Abbot of Saint-Vanne, -1046 Richard, Abbot of Saint-Vanne, -1046 fast Subject Abbots -- France -- Biography Religious leaders -- France -- Biography Monasticism and religious orders -- France -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Christian leadership -- Catholic Church -- History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious. RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History. Abbots Christian leadership -- Catholic Church Monasticism and religious orders -- Middle Ages Religious leaders SUBJECT France -- Church history -- 987-1515. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051177 Subject France Genre/Form Electronic book Biographies Church history History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2014036379 ISBN 9780801453779 0801453771 9780801456305 0801456304

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