Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/eSmHmx Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform By: Steven Vanderputten Publisher: Cornell University Press Print ISBN: 9780801453779, 0801453771 eText ISBN: 9780801456305, 0801456304 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2015 Format: PDF Available from $ 24.99 USD SKU 9780801456305 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. Additional ISBNs 9780801456299, 0801456290
