Fiction, memory, and identity in the cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 / John B. Wickstrom.
2022
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Fiction, memory, and identity in the cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 / John B. Wickstrom.
Author
Wickstrom, John B.
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9783030869458 (electronic bk.)
3030869458 (electronic bk.)
303086944X
9783030869441
3030869458 (electronic bk.)
303086944X
9783030869441
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-86945-8 doi
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BL488
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270.2092
Summary
This book explores one of the most significant medieval saints cults, that of St. Maurus, the first known disciple of Saint Benedict. Despite the centrality of this story to the myth of medieval Benedictine culture, no major scholarly work has been devoted to Maurus since the late nineteenth century. Drawing on memory studies, this book investigates the origins and history of the cult, from the ninth-century Life of St. Maurus by Odo, abbot of Glanfueil, to its appropriation and re-shaping by three powerful abbeys through to the thirteenth centuryFosses, Cluny, and Montecassino. It traces how these institutions deployed caches of mostly forged documents (many translated here for the first time) to adapt the cult to their aspirations and, moreover, considers how the cult adapted itself further, to face the challenges of the modern world. John B. Wickstrom is Professor Emeritus at Kalamazoo College, USA.
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Table of Contents
1. The Invention of St. Maurus
2. Building the Shrine and its Story
3. Destruction, Restoration, and Reform
4. The Bishop, the Abbot, and the Invention of the Cult
5. Appropriating the Cult I: Maurus at Fleury and Fosses Abbey
6. Shaping the Past in the Glanfeuil Cartulary
7. A New Church and New Liturgies
8. Appropriating the Cult II, Maurus and Cluny
9. Appropriating the Cult III: Constructed Memories at Montecassino
10. Epilogue.
2. Building the Shrine and its Story
3. Destruction, Restoration, and Reform
4. The Bishop, the Abbot, and the Invention of the Cult
5. Appropriating the Cult I: Maurus at Fleury and Fosses Abbey
6. Shaping the Past in the Glanfeuil Cartulary
7. A New Church and New Liturgies
8. Appropriating the Cult II, Maurus and Cluny
9. Appropriating the Cult III: Constructed Memories at Montecassino
10. Epilogue.