Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform

by Steven Vanderputten

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)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453771
• ISBN13: 9780801453779
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher