A Monk Against His Abbot, 829
Matthew Bryan Gillis
Abstract Chapter 1 examines Gottschalk’s legal case against Abbot Hrabanus Maurus of Fulda, at the Synod Mainz, 829, where he alleged that had illegally forced him to become a monk while still child. In order understand why bishops synod freed Gottschalk from his monastic oath and restored liberty, this chapter contextualizes court in history Saxon conquests conversion, Frankish monasticism Carolingian reform, publication Old epic Hêliand, issues related case. The finds won influential allies, who supported as nobleman condemning Hrabanus’s actions moment religious crisis reform empire. Hrabanus, however, recast arguments an anti-monastic heresy child oblation silence any opposition rule among Fulda monks.
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