Medieval Liège at the Crossroads of Europe: Monastic Society and Culture, 1000–1300

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During the high Middle Ages, the bishopric of Liège found itself at a cultural crossroads between the German Empire and the French lordships. The Liègeois themselves summed up the situation when they declared that: ‘Gaul considers us its most distant inhabitants, Germany as nearby citizens. In fact we are neither, but both at the same time’. This same complexity is also echoed by present-day historians, who have described Liège as a hub of interactions between two great civilisations. Medieval monastic communities in Liège were key sites of this exchange, actively participating in the cultural developments, social networks, and political structures of both regions. Bringing together the work of international scholars, this collection of essays addresses the problem of monastic identity and its formation in a region that was geographically wedged between two major competing socio-political powers. It investigates how monastic communities negotiated the uncertainties of this situation, while also capitalizing on the opportunities it presented. As such, this book sheds light on the agency of monastic identity formation in a small but complex region caught at the crossroads of two major powers. Front Matter ("Contents", "List of Illustrations"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. x Tjamke Snijders, Jay Diehl, Steven Vanderputten https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110930 Wandering Abbots: Abbatial Mobility and stabilitas loci in Eleventh-Century Lotharingia and Flanders, p. 1 Helena Vanommeslaeghe https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110931 Imperial Abbacy Meets French Lordship: Stavelot-Malmedy and the County of Luxembourg under Thibaut of Bar and Ermesinde (1197-1247), p. 29 Nicolas Schroeder https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110932 Between Identity, History, and Rivalry: Hagiographic Legends in Trier, Cologne, and Liège, p. 49 Klaus Krönert https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110933 Near Neighbours, Distant Brothers: The Inter-Monastic Networks of Benedictine Houses in the Southern Low Countries (900-1200), p. 69 Tjamke Snijders https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110934 Reims, Liège, and Institutional Reform in the Central Middle Ages: Flavius Josephus as a Father of the Church, p. 109 Diane Reilly https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110935 Masters and Schools at St Laurent: Rupert of Deutz and the Scholastic Culture of a Liégeois Monastery, p. 151 Jay Diehl https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110936 The Investiture Controversy in the Diocese of Liège Reconsidered: An Inquiry into the Positions of the Abbeys of Saint-Hubert and Saint-Laurent and the Canonist Alger of Liège (1091-1106), p. 183 Ortwin Huysmans https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110937 Between the Empire and the Reform Papacy: The Abbey of St Hubert and the Impact of its Papal Bull (1074) on Ecclesiastical Tradition and Monastic Identity in the Diocese of Liège, p. 219 Brigitte Meijns https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110938 Identités monastiques dans un monde bouleversé: Représentations identitaires dans la Chronique de Saint-Hubert, dite Cantatorium (diocèse de Liège, début XIIe s.), p. 251 Michel Margue https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110939 The mulieres religiosae, Daughters of Hildegard of Bingen? Interfaces between a Benedictine Visionary, the Cistercians of Villers, and the Spiritual Women of Liège, p. 301 Sara Moens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110940 The Religious Women of Liège at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century, p. 339 John Van Engen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110941 Conclusion, p. 371 Alexis Wilkin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.110942 Back Matter, p. 379