Janneke Raaijmakers. The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744–c. 900.
Lynda L. Coon
In The Making of the Monastic Community Fulda, Janneke Raaijmakers offers her readers a multidimensional portrait an influential monastery in early medieval era: Abbey situated eastern zone Carolingian power what is today Hesse Germany. zooms on this impressive abbey using archaeology, architecture, wall paintings, book inventories, charters, vitae abbots, epistles, monastic commentaries, miracle tales, Easter tables, relics, poetry, inscriptions, monk lists, annales necrologici, and historical chronicles. structured around tenure various from “founder” Sturmi (d. 779) through rulers late ninth-century community, Hatto, Thioto, Sigihard. abbacy luminary Hrabanus Maurus 856) receives two full chapters, marking his rule as essential both era book. ordering each chapter, however, goes beyond simple chronological listing abbot after abbot: certain chapters highlight sources under investigation, including architectural diagrams, necrologies, or inventories while others focus historiographical issues, such alleged primacy Rule St. Benedict, relationship between court cloister, supposed deterioration Fulda at end age.
The American Historical Review