Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia. From its founding

This is a study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany. While the book will be of inter

This book provides scholars and students alike with a set of texts that can deepen their understanding of the culture and society of the twelfth-century German

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the M

Each of the studies in this volume draws upon a manuscript, or a group of manuscripts, that shed light on the practice of monastic life during this period of re