In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful c

This work explores how monasteries fulfilled their particular duty of intercessory prayer in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on the period of Carolingian Church

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the M

The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were i

This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church,