Back to an unknown monastic paradise: Carolingian Benedictine monasticism in early medieval Catalonia in the mirror of its manuscript tradition
It is a well-known story of early medieval monastic life that the Europe-wide diffusion of the Benedictine life-style was intrinsically connected to the Carolingians’ reform of the Church. This older form of religious life imposed its dominance over other male (and female) monastic rules in the Southwestern periphery of the Carolingian Empire from the reign of…