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Rhinoceros Bound - Cluny in the Tenth Century (Hardcover)
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Rhinoceros Bound - Cluny in the Tenth Century (Hardcover)
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"The rhinoceros, that is, any powerful man, is bound with a thong
so that he may crush the clods of the valleys, that is, the
oppressors of the humble."-Odo of Cluny, Vita Geraldi i.8 To the
second abbot of the great monastery at Cluny, Saint Odo,
tenth-century Europe was a world filled with violent men oppressing
at whim the poor and the powerless. As royal authority waned, local
magnates, unrestrained by any authority, divine or human, seized
the opportunity to enhance their positions. Odo, along with Cluny's
other founding spiritual and ideological leaders, created within
the protective walls of the monastery a model of restraint,
instituting in place of the instability of everyday life an
interpretation of the Benedictine Rule that stressed ritual, order,
and lawfulness. Such were the beginnings of the monastery that Pope
Urban II in the eleventh century would call "the light of the
world," the fountainhead of what would become one of the most
far-reaching religious reform movements in European history.
Barbara Rosenwein in Rhinoceros Bound focuses on Cluny's founding
and early growth within the context of a society shaped by the
needs of those set adrift in the social upheaval of the tenth
century. Examining in the first chapter traditional approaches to
Cluniac studies, the author reveals that historians have generally
considered Cluny's eleventh-century role in church reform without
analyzing the peculiar combination of forces and founders that
created the Cluniac ideal and gave it its original momentum. This
fundamental problem is the topic of the second chapter. She then
examines how the early Cluniacs perceived the world outside the
monastery and how they viewed their own world inside of it.
Rosenwein concludes with a chapter on Cluny in the tenth century
that combines traditional historical techniques with contemporary
sociological insights. She provides in this study a significant
reassessment of a period crucial to the political development of
Europe, as well as a case study of institutional response to acute
and political change.
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