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Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of
Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which
forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a
tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and
represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this
singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of
remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past.
Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and
diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western
civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its
'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. The Destruction
and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529.1964 asks how the abbey's
fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally
constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and
suffering . and recovery and rebirth . has become incorporated into
a modern narrative of progress and triumph.
This book examines the history of monastic exemption in France. It
reveals an institutional story of monastic freedom and protection,
deeply rooted in the religious, political, social and legal culture
of the early Middle Ages. Traversing many geo-political boundaries
and fields of historical specialisation, the book defines the
meaning and value of exemption to French monasteries between the
sixth and eleventh centuries. It demonstrates how enduring
relationships with the apostolic see in Rome ultimately contributed
to an emerging identity of papal authority, the growth of early
monasticism, Frankish politics and governance, church reform and
canon law. -- .
Canon law is an unavoidable theme for medieval historians. It
intersects with every aspect of medieval life and society, and at
one point or another, every medievalist works on the law. In this
book, Kriston Rennie looks at the early medieval origins and
development of canon law though a social history framework, with a
view to making sense of a rich and complex legal system and
culture, and an equally rich scholarly tradition. It was in the
early Middle Ages that the ancient traditions, norms, customs, and
rationale of the Church were shaped into legislative procedure. The
structures and rationale behind the law's formulation - its
fundamental purpose, reason for existence and proliferation, and
methods of creation and collection - explain how the medieval
Church and society was influenced and controlled. They also, as
this short book argues, explain how it ultimately functioned.
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