Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West: Volume 1

Alison Beach is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is author of The Trauma of Monastic Reform: Community and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Germany (Cambridge, 2017) and Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Cambridge, 2004). Isabelle Cochelin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor of several volumes, most recently From Learning to Love: Schools, Laws, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages (2017).

• 1. General introduction Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin; Part I. The Origins of Christian Monasticism to the Eighth Century: 2. The monastic laboratory: perspectives of research in late Antique and early medieval monasticism Albrecht Diem and Claudia Rapp; 3. Re-reading monastic traditions: Monks and Nuns, East and West, from the origins to c. 750 Anne-Marie Helvétius, Michel Kaplan, Anne Boud'Hors, Muriel Debié and Bénédicte Lesieur; 4. The archaeology of the earliest monasteries Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom and Hendrik Dey; 5. Egyptian Nuns in late Antiquity as Exemplars Mariachiara Giorda; 6. Psalmody and prayer in early monasticism Peter Jeffery; 7. Heterodoxy and monasticism around the Mediterranean Sea David Brakke; 8. The invention of Western monastic literature: texts and communities Roberto Alciati; 9. Monastic rules (4th–9th c.) Albrecht Diem and Philip Rousseau; 10. Social plurality and monastic diversity in late Antique Hispania (6th–8th c.) Pablo C. Díaz; 11. Female house ascetics from the fourth to the twelfth century Eliana Magnani; 12. The archaeology of the earliest monasteries in Italy and France (5th–8th c.): state of the question Sébastien Bully and Eleonora Destefanis; 13. Nuns and Monks at work: equality or distinction between the sexes? A study of Frankish monasteries from the sixth to the tenth century Isabelle Réal; 14. Ascetic prayer for the dead in the early medieval West Gordon Blennemann; 15. Monastic identity in early medieval Ireland Lisa Bitel; 16. Constructing monastic space in the early and central medieval West (5th–12th c.) Michel Lauwers; 17. The economy of Byzantine monasteries Michel Kaplan; Part II. The Carolingians to the Eleventh Century: 18. The historiography of ventral medieval Western monasticism Felice Lifshitz; 19. Sources for the history of monasticism in the central Middle Ages (c. 800–1100) Scott Bruce; 20. Questions of monastic identity in medieval Southern Italy and Sicily (c. 500–1200) Valerie Ramseyer; 21. Discerning 'reform' in monastic liturgy (c. 750–1050) Jesse Billett; 22. Monasticism, reform and authority in the Carolingian Era Rutger Kramer; 23. Carolingian monastic schools and reform John Contreni; 24. Monastic economics in the Carolingian Age Jean-Pierre Devroey; 25. Missions on the Northern and Eastern frontiers, c. 700–1100 Janneke Raaijmakers; 26. Minsters and monasticism in Anglo-Saxon England Christopher Andrew Jones; 27. Monastic art and architecture, c. 700–1100: material and immaterial worlds Adam Cohen; 28. Monastic daily life (c. 750–1100): a tight community shielded by an outer court Isabelle Cochelin; 29. The double monastery as an historiographical problem (4th–12th c.) Alison Beach and Andra Juganaru; 30. Interactions between Monks and the lay nobility (from the Carolingian Era through the eleventh century) Isabelle Rosé; 31. Monastic reform in the tenth to early twelfth century Steven Vanderputten; 32. Monastic canon law in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries Christof Rolker; 33. Eastern influence on Western monasticism, 850–1050 John Howe.