Steven Vanderputten: 3 books
Dark Age Nunneries
The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia—a politically and culturally...
Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages
Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Around the turn of the first millennium AD, there emerged in the former Carolingian Empire a generation of abbots that came to be remembered as one of the most influential in the history of Western monasticism. In this book Steven Vanderputten reevaluates the historical significance of this generation...
Monastic Reform as Process
Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900–1100
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The history of monastic institutions in the Middle Ages may at first appear remarkably uniform and predictable. Medieval commentators and modern scholars have observed how monasteries of the tenth to early twelfth centuries experienced long periods of stasis alternating with bursts of rapid development...