Abstract
This article contrasts the rhetoric of accessibility to monastic conversion as we can find it in late antique and early medieval narrative texts with practices of exclusion from monastic entry, especially for slaves and unfree people, priests, monks form other monasteries and the poor as it is laid out in monastic rules and other normative texts. It especially focuses on rituals of access to the monastery and techniques of exclusion in the ninth-century commentary to the Regula Benedicti by Hildemar of Corbie.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | La construction sociale du sujet exclu (IVe-XIe siècle) |
Editors | Sylvie Joye, Cristina La Rocca , Stéphane Gioanni |
Place of Publication | Turnhout |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
ISBN (Print) | 9782503576053, 9782503576060 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- monastic rules
- exclusion
- monasticism
- middle ages
- hagiography