L’accueil des laïcs dans les monastères (ve-ixe siècle), d’après les règles monastiques by Michèle Gaillard

Subjects: “…ancient monastic rules…”
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Spaces for servants and provendarii in Early Medieval Monasteries. The example of the virtual monastery on the Plan of Saint Gall by Alfons Zettler

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Vocation et famille : l’exemple de la Lorraine aux xviie et xviiie siècles by Jean-Marc Lejuste

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De l’écrit éphémère à l’acte pérenne ? Remarques sur le processus de la mise par écrit au xie siècle aux confins du Dunois et du Chartrain by Chantal Senséby

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Marmoutier (Tours) : de l’hôtellerie médiévale à la maison du Grand Prieur by Élisabeth Lorans, Émeline Marot, Gaël Simon

“…The floor space of the old monastic guest house, of which around a third is still above ground, was excavated between 2006 and 2013, showing a complex evolution of the monastic buildings between the 10th-11th and the 19th centuries. …”
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Les origines de l’abbaye de Vézelay et les débuts de son organisation claustrale (ixe-xiie siècle) by Christian Sapin, Fabrice Henrion, Stéphane Büttner

“…These initial elements provide insight into the genesis of a vast organisation of the monastic buildings which are abandoned after the 16th century.…”
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Le don de plomb dans le patronage monastique d’Henri II Plantagenêt : usages et conditions de la production du plomb anglais dans la seconde moitié du xiie siècle by Fanny Madeline

“…Following the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, the deteriorating relationship between Henry II and the clergy constrained the sovereign into increasing his donations to monastic establishments. Among the monasteries endowed, Amesbury, Waltham, Clairvaux and Grandmont received large quantities of lead. …”
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Le logis du Grand Sacristain 
de l’abbaye Saint-Michel de Cuxa, Codalet (Pyrénées-Orientales) by Patrice Alessandri, Astrid Huser, Aline Molinier

“…The transformation of the original monastic foundation during the eleventh century is seen in the originality of the architectural solutions implemented in this major monument of Western Christianity.Half a century after the last excavations were completed, through multidisciplinary interpretation associating topography, sample area excavations, standing building studies and documentary research, an archaeological operation on the Grand Sacristan’s abode has provided a new picture of the structural transformations between the tenth and eighteenth centuries. …”
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Une vie, une œuvre, des archives : note sur le fonds Dom Paul Bellot aux Archives nationales du monde du travail (Fonds n° 2003 006) by Christian Hottin

“…Beyond the intrinsic interest of these papers for the history of contemporary sacred art and for the light they bring to understanding the original and complex personality of the man, the history of the papers also illustrates some of the difficulties inherent to the conservation of the religious heritage : the ageing of monastic communities ; the importance of non-paid work ; and the need for public support in the safekeeping and interpretation of the papers.…”
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La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge by Jean-Pierre Garcia

“…Therefore it is worth exploring medieval history to decipher the relationship linking wine to place in the Middle Ages: for instance, the way wines were labelled in cellars and storerooms in Dijon. Some monastic communities were not accustomed to differentiating their wine according to the original place in which it grew. …”
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Des traces d’artisanat dans les monastères comtois du haut Moyen Âge by Sébastien Bully, Aurélia Bully, Inès Pactat (contribution)

“…However, thanks to some exceptional finds, which emerged from excavations at Saint-Claude, Luxeuil, Baume and Jussamoutier de Besançon, it is possible for us to nevertheless begin to examine artisanal activity within the monastic precinct, while considering a number of underlying questions: who was involved in this activity, what did their work entail, and to whom was their production targeted?…”
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Ascèse sportive et mode de vie communautaire : le quotidien de sportifs de haut niveau en athlétisme by Sylvaine Derycke

“…Its functionning shows many similarities with monastic life which allows us to look at it as a “practiced utopia”. …”
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La salle capitulaire de l’abbaye Saint-Séverin à Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne). Analyse architecturale et fonction funéraire (xiie-xiiie siècles) by Claude de Mecquenem, Valérie Delattre

“…In 1996, during the excavation of the east sector of the monastic buildings of the Saint-Séverin abbey at Château-Landon the long forgotten chapter house was discovered. …”
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« Demanio » o « feudo » ? L’università della Cava tra la signoria monastica e la corona angioina. Centri, periferia e uffici nel Regno di Napoli (XIII-XV) by Massimo Siani

“…The origin of the city of Cava (Kingdom of Naples) between the end of the XIII and the middle of XV centuries shows how both characters (royal and monastic-feudal) interacted each other in a specific dialectic between centres – the crown and the monastery of Trinity – and periphery (the universitas of Cava). …”
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L’abbaye cistercienne du Val-Richer (Calvados) : prospections microtopographique et géophysique d’un monastère disparu by Jean-Baptiste Vincent

“…Since the French Revolution, the many changes made to the site have almost made disappear more than six centuries of monastic activity. In addition, the textual and iconographic sources relating to the abbey are scarce and do not provide any details on the location and morphology of the conventual buildings (even for the abbey’s church). …”
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Circulation et contrôle de la parole dans les couvents dominicains (XIIIe-XIVe siècle) by Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…In order to understand the genesis and application of an ideal Dominican use of language practices, it is important to place it in a paradoxical context between active life (promoting an exemplary and efficient speech) and contemplative life (valuing silence). Heirs to the monastic tradition of guarding the tongue and actors in an unprecedented expansion of preaching to the people, the Dominicans had to become the “new masters of the speech”, while guarding against the sins of the tongue, which were particularly studied in the thirteenth century. …”
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Art byzantin et peintres français au XIXe siècle sur le Mont Athos by Katerina Seraïdari

“…It also places this monastic peninsula and its inhabitants, deliberately staying at the margins of society, in the center of artistic debates in France.…”
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Indices de productions au sein d’une communauté religieuse carolingienne : l’exemple de Cysoing (Nord) by Damien Censier, Emmanuelle Bonnaire, Cécile Bouet, Renaud Leroy, Héloïse Esteves, Étienne Louis

“…The site “Le Clos de l’Abbaye” in Cysoing is a monastic place dedicated to saint Calixte and founded around 850 A.D. by Gisele and Évrard de Frioul. …”
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Nova cluniacensia : les feuillets de garde du manuscrit Paris BnF nal 1236 et la création de la liturgie clunisienne by Eduardo Henrik Aubert

“…This article consists of an in-depth examination of three folios originating from a notated monastic antiphoner, currently employed as flyleaves in manuscript Paris, BnF, nal 1236. …”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…The first observation we can make is that we had here a primitive type of monasticism, flourishing within an urban context, and encouraged by the local bishops, while other monastic institutions struggled to survive outside this urban setting. …”
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