Dissertation Information for Raymond V. Lavoie NAME: - Raymond V. Lavoie
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1999)
ADVISORS: - Patrick J. Geary
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Joseph F. Nagy - Scott L. Waugh
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Saints, kings, and religious reformers: Texts, social ties, and identity in the religious communities of eleventh- and twelfth-century Regensburg
Abstract: This dissertation studies literary works produced in the diocese of Regensburg in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, specifically hagiography and texts dealing with the controversies surrounding reforms of regular life. During this time, literary production flourished in Regensburg, one of the most important political and economic centers in the German empire. Monks at the monasteries of St. Emmeram, Niedermünster, St. Jakob, and Prüfening produced a wide range of hagiographic. Moreover, scholars such as Idung of Prüfening debated the tensions created by the proliferation of forms of regular life.
This study takes as its underlying thesis the idea that such literary works can be regarded as occasional literature. They were produced with a specific intent in response to a specific set of local circumstances. Moreover, it seeks to demonstrate that one of the principle purposes motivating the creation of such works was the desire to communicate the community's social connections with powerful and influential figures, saints, kings, or, later, respected religious reformers. Such connections enhance the community's prestige, which in turn helped ensure social, religious, and economic prosperity.
Chapter one explains how such literary works figured into the social and intellectual life of the communities that created them. The next three chapters examine three different hagiographic works produced by the monastery of St. Emmeram, and show how these works all sought to connect the monastery with various important and influential figures in society. These chapters also examine the specific crises that prompted the monastery to attempt to bolster its prestige in these ways. The final two chapters explore the continuity and change in these texts in the twelfth century. Chapter five examines the hagiography produced at the Schottenkloster of St. Jakob, exploring the similarities and differences between these twelfth-century texts and the eleventh-century predecessors examined in earlier chapters. The final chapter turns to the texts of the twelfth-century reform, and explores how the ideas of the reform changed the emphasis of the connections that the texts tried to communicate, from prestigious individuals, such as kings or local saints, to prestigious institutions, such as various groups of religious reformers.
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