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The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have o

This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south

Excerpt from French Monasticism in 1503: An Abstract of the Plea for Reform Published in That Year by Guy Foueuneaur, Abbot of St. Sulpice De Bourges, Mainly in

A study of the changes in religious thought and institutions c. 1180-c. 1280.

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the M