Carolingian monasticism: the power of prayer
Michiel de Jong
This chapter talks about the impact of powerful, kings and aristocrats, on inner world cloister. Monastic life was lived in close contact with outside, responded to its needs. constant proximity necessitated a repeated redrawing boundaries renewal distance, which is usually called 'monastic reform'. The tension between separation integration recurrent theme writings Carolingian monastic authors, precisely because their communities were so much at centre social political life. architectural solution this problem claustrum, an enclosure within monastery should keep outside bay. first section deals demands society monks nuns, function monasteria. second treats way these shaped vita communis, persisent ideal communal
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