Abbatial Authority and the Writing of History in the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 September 2023
- ISBN 9780198795377
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages434 pages
- Size 241x163x26 mm
- Weight 868 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 black and white figures/illustrations 497
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Short description:
How, why, and by whom was history written in medieval European monasteries? Benjamin Pohl investigates the communities' abbots or abbesses as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives; transforming our understanding of the writing of history in this fascinating period of Europe's history.
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This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the period c.500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and identity of medieval monastic communities, but it was not an activity for which time and resources were set aside routinely. Each act of historiographical production constituted an extraordinary event, one for which singular provision had to be made, workers and materials assigned, time carved out from the monastic routine, and licence granted. This allocation of human and material resources was the responsibility and prerogative of the monastic superior. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of primary evidence gathered from across the medieval Latin West, this book is the first to investigate systematically how and why abbots and abbesses exercised their official authority and resources to lay the foundations on which their communities' historiographical traditions were built by themselves and others. It showcases them as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives who not only regularly put pen to parchment personally, but also, and perhaps more importantly, enabled others inside and outside their communities by granting them the resources and licence to write. Revealing the intrinsic relationship between abbatial authority and the writing of history in the Middle Ages with unprecedented clarity, Benjamin Pohl urges us to revisit and revise our understanding of monastic historiography, its processes, and its protagonists in ways that require some radical rethinking of the medieval historian's craft in communal and institutional contexts.
Benjamin Pohl's monograph on abbatial authority and history-writing is a work of remarkable breadth and ambition. Pohl sets out to explore the abbatial contribution to historical production (defined in the most capacious terms as any form of narrative about the past) carried out in monasteries throughout the medieval period (c. 500-1500), and across the whole of north-west Europe [...] It is perhaps the most impressive feature of his book that-not withstanding its breadth of coverage-each of these studies is detailed, sensitive to specific contexts, and engages perceptively with current historiographical trends and interpretations. Pohl is comfortable handling a wide range of texts from across the medieval period, as well as codicological, art historical, and architectural evidence.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Abbatial Authorship
Abbatial Patronage
Abbatial Book Provision and Library Building
'In studio abbatis'
Conclusion
Appendix: The Abbots of Flavigny and Their Deeds (Series abbatum Flaviniacensium)
