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45 - Later Monastic Economies

from Part III - The Long Twelfth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Constance A. Berman
Edited by
Alison I. Beach  and
Isabelle Cochelin
Alison I. Beach
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Isabelle Cochelin
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter examines the resources used by communities of monks and nuns in the medieval West to support their lives of prayer, contemplation and charity in the years between 1100 and 1400 ce. In an earlier chapter Jean-Pierre Devroey laid out the fundamentals of Carolingian monastic economies by drawing on monastic rules, customaries, and treatises, as well as on capitularies and polyptychs; much of this organization of monastic economies remained in the later Middle Ages. In both eras few monastic communities were entirely self-sufficient; most had recourse to markets. The evidence for later monastic economies in the West differs from that from the Byzantine realm in that there is little available hagiography that touches on economic matters. There were, however, a number of Western acquisition patterns, by purchase and exchange as well as gifts, that were similar to those described by Kaplan for Mount Athos.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 831 - 847
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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