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Project

Monastic leadership in the post-charismatic age: constructing a new paradigm for the study of reforms before the emergence of the great Orders (Western Europe, tenth-early twelfth centuries)’
Code
3G000811
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
    • Theology and religious studies
Keywords
medieval history institutional processes reform German English French Latin Dutch Middle Ages Comparative Surveys Language and text analysis Western Europe Religion History Area studies
 
Project description

This project focuses on the leadership of ‘second-generation reformers’ in monasteries from the central Middle Ages (10th-early 12th centuries) to investigate the phenomenon of monastic reform as a long-term process.