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35 - Sources for Monasticism in the Long Twelfth Century

from Part III - The Long Twelfth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2020

By
Lauren Mancia
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

The long twelfth century (c. 1050–1215) has been characterized by medievalists as a period of “renaissance” and “renewal”; a time of the “crisis” of cenobitism and the “new” monasticism; the “discovery” of the individual; and the “Gregorian” reform. These appellations are stories told in the historiography, and are therefore susceptible to trends, schools of thought, and scholarly debate. But how did medieval monks and nuns characterize this period for themselves? What is unquestioned about the long twelfth century is that there is an increase in the type and availability of source material for historians of monasticism. Buildings still stand. Texts endure in multiple copies. Manuscripts survive more readily and in more legible hands. Translations and editions of sources abound.

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The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West , pp. 667 - 683
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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