‘COLUMBANUS WORE A SINGLE COWL, NOT A DOUBLE ONE’: THE VITA DEICOLI AND THE LEGACY OF COLUMBANIAN MONASTICISM AT THE TURN OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
Steven Vanderputten
This article analyses the Life of St. Deicolus Lure, a monastery in Alsace region east France, written by cleric Theodoric 970s or 980s. It argues that text contains notable amount information on existence, methodology, and limitations an ill-understood aspect monastic integration around year 1000. Relying analysis narrative's second prologue as well scattered comments elsewhere text, it reconstructs three phenomena. The first is attempts to (re-)establish Luxeuil-centered imagined community institutions with shared Columbanian legacy through creation circulation hagiographic narratives. A co-creation across institutional boundaries texts manuscripts were designed facilitate these attempts. And third phenomenon limits this effort, which did not tempt those involved propose establishment distinct ‘neo-Columbanian’ observance. As such, represents attempt reconcile Columbanus his real alleged followers celebrated at late tenth-century Luxeuil Lure contemporary understanding reformed Benedictine identity.
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