A Translation of the Chronicle of the Abbey of Morigny, France, C. 1100-1150 (Medieval Studies, 22)
Contributors: Richard Cusimano (Editor, Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: January 2004
Language: eng; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780773466371
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Religion - Church Life; French; Europe; Institutions & Organizations; Medieval; Church history; France; History; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Monasticism and religious orde; Monasticism and religious orders; Morigny (Abbey : Morigny-Champ; Morigny (Abbey : Morigny-Champigny, France); Sources
Description: "Written during the 12th century by monks at the Benedictine abbey of Morigny, about fifty kilometers south of Paris, the Chronicle describes the abbey's foundation, its purchase by King Philip I, its difficulties surviving its initial poverty, its heated quarrel over proprietorships with the canons of the church of Saint-Martin in Old Etampes, and its bitter dispute with the church of Notre Dame of Etampes over burial rights. Besides revealing the intrigues and scandals of 12th-century churchman vying for money, power, and influence, these parts of the text detail an abbey's struggle to be born and survive in a society filled with churches, and with powers, both lay and ecclesiastical, competing either to help it or harm it. This, the first published translation of the Chronicle, will be a significant addition to early 12th-century studies."--BOOK JACKET.