Miracula, saints' cults and socio-political landscapes: Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society
Faye C. Taylor
Despite the centrality of monastic sources to debates about social and political transformation in post-Carolingian Europe, few studies have approached economic status monasteries their saints' cults this context, which thesis offers a comparative approach. Hagiography provides an interesting point analysis with respect proposition mutation feodale, more importantly that documentaire its relation 'reform', Part I discusses. 

Parts II III consider Bobbio Conques, miracula (dedicated San Colombano Sainte Foy) within respective socio-political environments, since best recent scholarship concerning millennial period has emphasized specificity regional experience. At closeness king physically some continuity royal practices between tenth eleventh centuries shaped It directed sometimes restricted discourse, maintained older tradition general service kingdom, although innovations relic usage helped negotiations sovereign. waning control created space for literary cultic advances served bolster monastery's position local power structures. In landscape forms public authority were purposefully minimized hierarchy landownership negotiated aristocrats, including Foy at head Conques. 

Whilst categories 'feudal transformation' debate can offer useful framework two very different societies, comparison demonstrates placing centre our is crucial understanding documents they produce, therefore questions potential these shed light on wider societal change. Concerns over land autonomy central both institutions, operated conceptual planes, because bases landed patrimony dating back much further than century. Each monastery clientele through according rules. Therefore, whilst related documentary transformations inseparable from pressures, not necessarily pressures simply reacting but formative processes direction shape