Robert F. Berkhofer III teaches history at Western Michigan University.

"Pointing to monastic management as a kind of workshop for the new administrative techniques used later by the centralized monarchies, Day of Reckoning is at once learned, intelligent, and original. Medievalists as well as those interested in the development of management in history should read this book with considerable interest and pleasure." (Alain Boureau, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) "Interesting and wide-ranging. . . . The book is well-structured, lucidly written, and based on considerable research in original sources." (Early Medieval Europe)

• Introduction1. A Fragmentary Past? Monastic History, Memory, and Patrimony2. Written Comprehension of Land and Signs of an Administrative Mentality3. Ministering and Administering: Abbots as Catalysts of Change4. Discipline and Service Inside and Outside the CloisterConclusion: Accountability, Writing, and Rule by 1200Appendix 1: The Cartularies of Saint-BertinAppendix 2: The Cartulary of Three CrossesAppendix 3: Enumerations in Papal ConfirmationsAppendix 4: Abbatial and Monastic Acts: Saint-Vaast, Saint-Bertin, and Saint-DenisList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Robert F. Berkhofer III teaches history at Western Michigan University.

"Pointing to monastic management as a kind of workshop for the new administrative techniques used later by the centralized monarchies, Day of Reckoning is at once learned, intelligent, and original. Medievalists as well as those interested in the development of management in history should read this book with considerable interest and pleasure." (Alain Boureau, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) "Interesting and wide-ranging. . . . The book is well-structured, lucidly written, and based on considerable research in original sources." (Early Medieval Europe)

• Introduction1. A Fragmentary Past? Monastic History, Memory, and Patrimony2. Written Comprehension of Land and Signs of an Administrative Mentality3. Ministering and Administering: Abbots as Catalysts of Change4. Discipline and Service Inside and Outside the CloisterConclusion: Accountability, Writing, and Rule by 1200Appendix 1: The Cartularies of Saint-BertinAppendix 2: The Cartulary of Three CrossesAppendix 3: Enumerations in Papal ConfirmationsAppendix 4: Abbatial and Monastic Acts: Saint-Vaast, Saint-Bertin, and Saint-DenisList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Robert F. Berkhofer III teaches history at Western Michigan University.

"Pointing to monastic management as a kind of workshop for the new administrative techniques used later by the centralized monarchies, Day of Reckoning is at once learned, intelligent, and original. Medievalists as well as those interested in the development of management in history should read this book with considerable interest and pleasure." (Alain Boureau, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) "Interesting and wide-ranging. . . . The book is well-structured, lucidly written, and based on considerable research in original sources." (Early Medieval Europe)

• Introduction1. A Fragmentary Past? Monastic History, Memory, and Patrimony2. Written Comprehension of Land and Signs of an Administrative Mentality3. Ministering and Administering: Abbots as Catalysts of Change4. Discipline and Service Inside and Outside the CloisterConclusion: Accountability, Writing, and Rule by 1200Appendix 1: The Cartularies of Saint-BertinAppendix 2: The Cartulary of Three CrossesAppendix 3: Enumerations in Papal ConfirmationsAppendix 4: Abbatial and Monastic Acts: Saint-Vaast, Saint-Bertin, and Saint-DenisList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments