This is a study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany. While the book will be of inter

This book opens a window on the lived experience of monastic reform in the twelfth century. Drawing on a variety of textual and material sources from the south

A study of the changes in religious thought and institutions c. 1180-c. 1280.

Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the M

Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by t