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- catalog abstract ""The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is comprehensively explored in this study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on the evidence from three of the region's greatest abbeys - Gorze, St-Maximin, and St-Evre - which played a central role in the monastic reform movement. This swept through the region in the 930s and is commonly named after Gorze." "John Nightingale sets the monasteries within the context of the whole social structure and exercise of regional power in the early middle ages. He demonstrates their vitality and importance, focusing on their land transactions as well as their religious roles. He challenges accepted notions of monastic lordship and demonstrates the complexity of the two-way relationships between monasteries and their patrons, relationships which ensured the former a central place in the early medieval landscape."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12062084.
- catalog coverage "France Church history 987-1515.".
- catalog coverage "France Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog coverage "Germany Church history 843-1517.".
- catalog coverage "Germany Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is comprehensively explored in this study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on the evidence from three of the region's greatest abbeys - Gorze, St-Maximin, and St-Evre - which played a central role in the monastic reform movement. This swept through the region in the 930s and is commonly named after Gorze." "John Nightingale sets the monasteries within the context of the whole social structure and exercise of regional power in the early middle ages. He demonstrates their vitality and importance, focusing on their land transactions as well as their religious roles. He challenges accepted notions of monastic lordship and demonstrates the complexity of the two-way relationships between monasteries and their patrons, relationships which ensured the former a central place in the early medieval landscape."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I. Gorze -- Part II. St-Evre and Bouxières-aux-Dames -- Part III. St-Maximin.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 318 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198208359".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford historical monographs".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press,".
- catalog spatial "France Church history 987-1515.".
- catalog spatial "France Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "Germany Church history 843-1517.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "BX2616 .N54 2001".
- catalog subject "Monasticism and religious orders France History.".
- catalog subject "Monasticism and religious orders Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Nobility France History.".
- catalog subject "Nobility Germany History.".
- catalog subject "Patronage, Ecclesiastical France History.".
- catalog subject "Patronage, Ecclesiastical Germany History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Gorze -- Part II. St-Evre and Bouxières-aux-Dames -- Part III. St-Maximin.".
- catalog title "Monasteries and patrons in the Gorze reform : Lotharingia c.850-1000 / John Nightingale.".
- catalog type "text".