Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany (eBook, ePUB)

The Chronicle of Petershausen in translation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding in 992 through the great fire that ravaged it in 1159 and beyond, Petershausen weathered countless external attacks and internal divisions. Supra-regional clashes between emperors and popes played out at the most local level. Monks struggled against overreaching bishops. Reformers introduced new and unfamiliar customs. Tensions erupted into violence within the community. Through it all the anonymous chronicler struggled to find meaning amid conflict and forge connections to a shared past, enlivening his narrative with colorful anecdotes - sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing. Translated into English for the first time, this fascinating text is an essential source for the lived experience of medieval monasticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526143297
• Artikelnr.: 59212852

Autorenporträt

Alison I. Beach is Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews Shannon M. T. Li, PhD is a professional indexer and proprietor of Li Indexing Samuel S. Sutherland is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Chronicle of Petershausen Prologue Book One Book Two Book
Three Book Four Translation of the Relics of St. Gebhard Additional Entries
Book Five Book Six Appendix 1: The Life of St. Gebhard Appendix 2:
Concordance of book and chapter numbering Bibliography Index