To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909 1049 Contributor(s): Rosenwein, Barbara H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080142206X ISBN-13: 9780801422065 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1989 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Real Estate - General - Architecture | Decoration & Ornament - History | Europe - Medieval |
Dewey: 333.322 |
LCCN: 88047912 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.28 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the regional monarchies of the High Middle Ages. In To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter she explores in rich detail the question of monastic donations, illuminating the human motives, needs, and practices behind gifts of land and churches to the French monastery of Cluny during the 140 years that followed its founding. Donations, Rosenwein shows, were largely the work of neighbors, and they set up and affirmed relationships with Saint Peter, to whom Cluny was dedicated.Cluny was an eminent religious institution and served as a model for other monasteries. It attracted numerous donations and was party to many land transactions. Its charters and cartularies constitute perhaps the single richest collection of information on property for the period 909-1049. Analyzing the evidence found in these records, Rosenwein considers the precise nature of Cluny's ownership of land, the character of its claims to property, and its tutelage over the land of some of the monasteries in its ecclesia. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosenwein, Barbara H.: - Barbara H. Rosenwein is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe and To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049, editor of Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages and coeditor of Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society, all from Cornell. She is also the editor of the Cornell series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past. |