Beach, Alison I.

The trauma of monastic reform : community and conflict in twelfth-century Germany / Alison I. Beach - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 - x, 190 p. : ill. , map; 24 cm.

Prologue : Felix Mater Constantia -- Raw cloth unto old garments : monastic reform as cultural trauma -- Because they themselves took away the beauty of my house : trauma in the core community -- Rootstock of the living vines : Petershausen's bearded brothers -- Women among the Apostles? : the complexities of the double monastery -- Cockle among the wheat : Petershausen as agent of reform -- A whole kingdom laid waste : Petershausen and its patrons in a violent landscape.

97811084173101108417310


Monasticism and religious orders Germany History.Monastic and religious life Germany History.Monastic and religious life.

BX2616 / .B43 2017