Death As A Symbolic Arena: Abbatial Leadership, Episcopal Authority, and the “Ostentatious Death” of Richard of Saint-Vanne (d. 1046)
Steven Vanderputten
This article reconsiders the evidence relating to “ostentatious death” of Richard Saint-Vanne (d. 1046), support two arguments centrality abbatial leadership in ideology monastic reformers early eleventh century: first, that rituals and other forms symbolic behavior associated with passing reformist abbots deserve analysis as a repertoire acts statements which derived their multiple meanings from institutional ideological contexts they were applied; second, himself, his followers, bishop Verdun turned Richard’s into arena for enactment competing visions on leadership, autonomy, episcopal authority.
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