Setting the Boundaries for Legitimate Experimentation
Steven Vanderputten
Reviewing the normative evidence, this chapter argues that Carolingian reformers of early ninth century did not, as is commonly assumed, create two homogeneous 'cohorts' female religious. Instead, they showed religious, their associates and patrons where lay outer boundaries legitimate experimentation, allowing for a great deal variation between individual communities. To make these points it considers, in order, decrees Aachen reform synods 816 decrees, context which originated, impact on subsequent prescriptive legislative texts, finally reception religious contexts. These observations allow reassessing, chapters 2 3, concrete situation communities ninth- early-tenth-century Lotharingia.
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