‎Rutger Kramer, Graeme Ward, Emilie Kurdziel (eds)‎
‎Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780-840). Categorizing the Church‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 454 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503579351.‎

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‎Summary In the years 816-819, a series of councils was held at the imperial palace in Aachen. The goal of the meetings was to settle a number of questions about ecclesiastical organization. These issues were hotly debated throughout the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, and then reinvigorated by the renewal of empire under Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious. At the centre of the ensuing debate stood the distinction between monks and monastic communities on the one hand, and the so-called clerici canonici and their communities on the other. Many other reforms were proposed in its wake: the position of the episcopacy needed to be renegotiated, the role of the imperial court needed to be consolidated, and the place of every Christian within the renewed Carolingian Church needed to be redefined. What started out as a seemingly straightforward reorganisation of the religious communities that dotted the Frankish ecclesiastical landscape thus quickly turned into a broad movement that necessitated an almost complete categorization of the orders of the Church. The contributions to this volume each zoom in on various aspects of these negotiations: their prehistory, their implementation, and their influence. In doing so, previously held assumptions about the scope, the goals, and the impact of the 'Carolingian Church Reforms' will also be re-assessed. TABLE OF CONTENTS Institutions, Identities, and the Realisation of Reform: An Introduction ? RUTGER KRAMER, EMILIE KURDZIEL, and GRAEME WARD The Monastic Reforms of 816-19: Ideals and Reality ? CHARLES M RIAUX Origins The Organization of the Clergy and the canonici in the Sixth Century ? SEBASTIAN SCHOLZ Choreography and Confession: the Memoriale qualiter and Carolingian Monasticism ? ALBRECHT DIEM Confusion and the Need to Choose? A Fresh Look at the Objectives Behind the Carolingian Reform Efforts in Capitularies and Conciliar Legislation (c. 750-813) ? BRIGITTE MEIJNS Old Norms, New Boundaries What is a canonicus? The Carolingians and the Rethinking of Ecclesiastical ordines ? EMILIE KURDZIEL Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Episcopal Self-Reflection and the Use of Church Fathers in the Institutio canonicorum ? RUTGER KRAMER AND VERONIKA WIESER Loose Canonesses? (Non-)Gendered Aspects of the Aachen Institutiones ? MICHAEL EBER Reception and Reflection 'Superior to Canons, and remaining inferior to Monks': Monks, Canons and Alcuin's Third Order ? STEPHEN LING This is a Cleric: Hrabanus Maurus's De institutione clericorum, Clerical Monks, and the Carolingian Church ? CINZIA GRIFONI The 'Apostates' of Saint-Denis: Reforms, Dissent and Carolingian Monasticism ? INGRID REMBOLD Debating the "una regula": Reflections on Monastic Life in Ninth-Century Manuscripts from St?Gall ? JOHANNA JEBE Reform in Practice Monks Pray, Priest Teach, Canons Sing and the Laity Listens: The Regula Benedicti and Conceptual Diversity of Sacred Space in Carolingian Discourse ? MIRIAM CZOCK Cathedral and Monastic: Applying Baumstark's Categories to the Carolingian Divine Office ? RENIE CHOY Implementing Liturgical Change in Ninth-Century Lyon: Authority, Antiphoners, and Aachen 816 ? GRAEME WARD Ordering the Church in the Ordines Romani ? ARTHUR WESTWELL *** Index‎