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The Lands of Saint Ambrose - Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (Hardcover)
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The Lands of Saint Ambrose - Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (Hardcover)
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This study concerns the Benedictine monastery of Sant'Ambrogio in
Milan, a unique and important institution because it was the first
monastery in Italy to be founded under the aegis of the Carolingian
family (c. 879). It is the first book-length study in English of
one of the most important groups of early Italian charters, a type
of document now widely acknowledged to be full of information about
the social history of what were once imagined to be the Dark Ages.
Using detailed evidence of some 300 charters, the book develops the
thesis that Sant'Ambrogio played an essential part in the
development and expansion of a complex urban society at Milan in
the Carolingian period because the monks touched the lives of both
'great men' and the 'new society' of notaries, merchants, judges
and moneyers. By writing monastic history as the history of a
relationship between monastery and society the study demonstrates
that it was the monastery of Sant'Ambrogio, as much as any other
institution or individual, which gave birth to a genuinely urban
society. The book therefore challenges the widely-held view that
urban monasteries were less important in ninth-century political
history than the great rural houses such as Fulda, St Gallen,
Bobbio and San Vicenzo al Volturno, and contributes a new thesis to
explain the revival of towns in this period. Finally, The Lands of
Saint Ambrose provides a fully-documented example of how early
medieval social history can be written from a major charter group.
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