This article looks to paint a picture of life and death at the reformed Benedictine (later Cistercian) abbey of Savigny, head of Normandy's only native monastic order. Using the abbey's extensive collection of charters, as well as narrative and annalistic texts, it traces in detail the different networks that underpinned recruitment at the abbey, from its abbots to its lay brothers, and attempts to reconstruct the community's lost sepulchral landscape, in particular with regards to the burial of its lay benefactors. As a result, it offers the first such evaluation of a Savigniac community, either in France or the British Isles, providing a case study that should be of interest not just to scholars working on the history of Savigny itself, b...
How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in...
This article reconsiders the evidence relating to the "ostentatious death" of Richard of Saint-Vanne...
La présente étude a pour but d’exposer les spécificités du monachisme cistercien du Bas-Maine entre ...
This article examines three little-known documents concerning the Savigniac filiation in Britain and...
Cistercian scholars often explore the order\u27s early history (its 1098 establishment in northern F...
If the annals produced by the Benedictine abbeys of Normandy have long been the subject of scholarly...
This article analyses the Life of St. Deicolus of Lure, a monastery in the Alsace region of east Fra...
The Cistercians were born out of a spirit of reform and a desire for closer adherence to the Rule of...
The abbey of Savigny (Rhône), founded during the Carolingian period and nearly destroyed at the dawn...
At the genesis of this dissertation is the observation that numerous Carolingian monasteries of the ...
The Cistercian Order was founded in Burgundy, France, in 1098 in a wake of the reform-enthusiasm rel...
The PhD study aims at putting Denmark on the Cistercian map of medieval Europe, and investigates the...
One of the great paradoxes of the medieval period is the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1225), in which m...
The Congregation of Savigny grew out of Vital of Mortain's (c. 1060-1122 CE) foundation of a monaste...
Lay patronage of religious houses remained of considerable importance during the late medieval perio...
How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in...
This article reconsiders the evidence relating to the "ostentatious death" of Richard of Saint-Vanne...
La présente étude a pour but d’exposer les spécificités du monachisme cistercien du Bas-Maine entre ...
This article examines three little-known documents concerning the Savigniac filiation in Britain and...
Cistercian scholars often explore the order\u27s early history (its 1098 establishment in northern F...
If the annals produced by the Benedictine abbeys of Normandy have long been the subject of scholarly...
This article analyses the Life of St. Deicolus of Lure, a monastery in the Alsace region of east Fra...
The Cistercians were born out of a spirit of reform and a desire for closer adherence to the Rule of...
The abbey of Savigny (Rhône), founded during the Carolingian period and nearly destroyed at the dawn...
At the genesis of this dissertation is the observation that numerous Carolingian monasteries of the ...
The Cistercian Order was founded in Burgundy, France, in 1098 in a wake of the reform-enthusiasm rel...
The PhD study aims at putting Denmark on the Cistercian map of medieval Europe, and investigates the...
One of the great paradoxes of the medieval period is the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1225), in which m...
The Congregation of Savigny grew out of Vital of Mortain's (c. 1060-1122 CE) foundation of a monaste...
Lay patronage of religious houses remained of considerable importance during the late medieval perio...
How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in...
This article reconsiders the evidence relating to the "ostentatious death" of Richard of Saint-Vanne...
La présente étude a pour but d’exposer les spécificités du monachisme cistercien du Bas-Maine entre ...