Aristocratic and Monastic Conflict in Tenth-Century Italy: the Case of Bobbio and the Miracula Sancti Columbani
Alexander O’Hara|Faye Taylor
The Miracula Sancti Columbani offers a unique monastic perspective on monastic/aristocratic conflict in tenth-century Italy, an area and period which other narrative sources are lacking. It recalls translatio strategy to Hugh of Provence’s royal court 929 response the incursions Bishop Guido Piacenza. When these events were redacted decades later, different sort diocesan threat presented itself-this time by Giseprand Tortona, who used his position as abbot Bobbio alienate lands. reveal shift nature episcopal ambition towards private patronage, proactive (if ever-changing) relationship between “royal” monastery sovereign, during when landscape power was shifting. Cultic innovations accompanying hagiographic material provide often-neglected onto agency institutions use institutional memory public sphere negotiate contest their rights.
Viator|Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der  Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)