Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare
window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of
twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding in 992 through the great
fire that ravaged it in 1159 and beyond, Petershausen weathered
countless external attacks and internal divisions. Supra-regional
clashes between emperors and popes played out at the most local
level. Monks struggled against overreaching bishops. Reformers
introduced new and unfamiliar customs. Tensions erupted into
violence within the community. Through it all the anonymous
chronicler struggled to find meaning amid conflict and forge
connections to a shared past, enlivening his narrative with
colorful anecdotes - sometimes amusing, sometimes disturbing.
Translated into English for the first time, this fascinating text
is an essential source for the lived experience of medieval
monasticism. -- .
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