Monasticism, Reform, and Authority in the Carolingian Era
Rutger Kramer
In the late 820s, a group of disgruntled monks traveled from monastery Moyenmoutier to imperial court Louis Pious (r. 814–40) in Aachen. They did so order lodge complaint against their abbot, whom they accused mismanagement and unsatisfactory leadership for his refusal allow access resources needed “live regular life.” The dispute had already simmered quite while. Two missi—Bishop Frotharius Toul (814–849/50) Abbot Smaragdus Saint-Mihiel (d. c. 840)—had been sent make sense situation, which itself was result an earlier settlement between community, emperor, abbot. wrote report that trust abbot broken such extent “that without [Louis’] judgment, nothing would be done,” “would rather expelled live like beggars on road” than thwarted by false promises again.
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