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The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan

by Ross Balzaretti
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9782503509778
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brepols Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Brepols Publishers
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 640
  • Original Price: GBP 123.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1293 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Medieval

This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and economic aspects of the transformation of the Roman world in one of its major centres. Its main theme is the role of monastic communities in this transformation. In the case of Milan a single monastery can be studied in great detail: the Benedictine community founded by Charlemagne, c. 789, next to the basilica in which St Ambrose himself was buried. Surprisingly, the impact which this important Carolingian foundation had upon the existing society of Milan has been underestimated by historians, partly because the history of the monastery has been studied apart from the history of the city. The book shows how successive generations of monks helped to change the social organisation of the city and much of its hinterland, largely through their substantial dealings in property as recorded in one of the most important surviving collections of early medieval charters. This thesis challenges the views of earlier generations of scholars who downplayed the role of the monastery in the mechanisms of social change, in favour of a 'new' mercantile class.

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