Gender and horizontal networks in Carolingian monasticisms (up to c. 840)
Ingrid Rembold
Horizontal networks of monasticisms, along with the rulers and bishops responsible for regulating them, were moving force behind monastic regulations business definition in Carolingian world: they main agents, short, what has been traditionally labelled ‘Carolingian reform’. These not only set agenda but built consensus these new initiatives; an integral part process by which ideals embedded, to greater or lesser degrees, within individual communities’ praxis. newly-expanded horizontal all-encompassing, however: were, design, overwhelmingly male. And so too those changes identified modern historians as reform’ applied male communities, while female communities addressed their own, explicitly gendered, prescriptions. There was no singular simple reason (among many others) that there ideal monasticism’: rather, like all other parts society, monasticisms fundamentally insurmountably gendered.
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