Fiction, memory, and identity in the cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 / John B. Wickstrom.
Wickstrom, John B.
2022
BL488
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Title Fiction, memory, and identity in the cult of St. Maurus, 830-1270 / John B. Wickstrom.
Author Wickstrom, John B.
ISBN 9783030869458 (electronic bk.)
3030869458 (electronic bk.)
303086944X
9783030869441
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86945-8
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-86945-8 doi
Call Number BL488
Dewey Decimal Classification 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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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.

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