Garsinde v. Sainte Foy: Argument, Threat, and Vengeance in Eleventh-Century Monastic Litigation
Stephen D. White
This volume examines forms of interaction between monastic or mendicant communities and lay people in the high Middle Ages Britain, France, Low Countries, Scandinavia. The nineteen papers explore these issues geographically chronologically diverse settings a way that no English-language collection has yet attempted. It brings together latest research from established as well younger historians. first section ‘Patrons Benefactors: power, fashion, mutual expectations’ involvement foundations, rights held by patrons, how they used powers, networks relationships within broader groups benefactors. authors demonstrate changing fashions shaped fortunes particular orders houses power relations different types patrons benefactors - royal figures, kinship, other social groupings affected expectations various parties. second volume, entitled ‘Lay Religious: negotiation, influence, utility’, shows people’s ideas role religious could impact upon their patronage of, support for, institutions. Conversely, offered multi-faceted benefits practical, intellectual, spiritual for secular world. book concludes focusing on rapid growth confraternities, relation to urban contexts, confraternities evolved late medieval period.
Europa Sacra