Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Chrodegang in the Frankish church; 2. The Regula canonicorum; 3. Chrodegang and the Rule of St. Benedict; 4. Roman and Gallic sources for the Regula canonicorum; 5. Individual, community and ritual in the Regula canonicorum; 6. Hagiopolis; Bibliography; Index; Index of manuscripts; Index locorum.

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Explores the career and reforming programme of Chrodegang (c. 712–766), bishop of Metz.

About the Author

M. A. Claussen is Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco and the author of articles on Church History.

Reviews

"In making the difficult leap from close reading to historical reconstruction and speculation, Claussen provides a model for how to integrate the philological and the theoretical, for how literary analysis can serve historical inquiry, and for why a close reading of the Latin text matters. The result is a compelling book that will be of great interest to both Latinists and church historians." - H-German, Anna Taylor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin