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Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book explores one of the most significant medieval saints'
cults, that of St. Maurus, the first known disciple of Saint
Benedict. Despite the centrality of this story to the myth of
medieval Benedictine culture, no major scholarly work has been
devoted to Maurus since the late nineteenth century. Drawing on
memory studies, this book investigates the origins and history of
the cult, from the ninth-century Life of St. Maurus by Odo, abbot
of Glanfueil, to its appropriation and re-shaping by three powerful
abbeys through to the thirteenth century-Fosses, Cluny, and
Montecassino. It traces how these institutions deployed caches of
mostly forged documents (many translated here for the first time)
to adapt the cult to their aspirations and, moreover, considers how
the cult adapted itself further, to face the challenges of the
modern world.
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