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- Explores presentations of a major saint’s cult over many periods and cultures
- Provides the only modern study of the founder-patron of the largest Western monastic Order
- Contains many primary sources newly translated for students
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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 century—Fossés, 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.
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Book Title: Fiction, Memory, and Identity in the Cult of St. Maurus, 830–1270
Authors: John B. Wickstrom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86945-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86944-1Published: 11 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86947-2Published: 12 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86945-8Published: 10 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 388
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Religion, Memory Studies