This paper discusses the literary, emotional and monastic relationship of Peter of Poitiers and Abbot Peter the Venerable, in particular looking at Peter of Poitier’s verse Panegyric in praise of his abbot, and Peter the Venerable’s subsequent verse Defence of his monk’s writings. The paper concludes that the Panegyric and its defence were part of…[Read more]

A preprint draft of the article appearing in Memini.

This article investigates the Chronicle of Richard of Poitiers (aka of Cluny), surveying its contents, its publication history, and its manuscript history.

This is a preprint draft of the chapter appearing in the De Gruyter volume, Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age.

This is a preprint draft of the article that appears in the Revue Bénedictine.

This chapter traces the rediscovery and reuse of the twelfth-century customary (Consuetudines) of Bernard of Cluny during the Early Modern period. Tracing the copies and editions that emerge, this study explores how early Modern monks sought to redefine the medieval sense of custom as a juridical analog to modern laws. This redefinition has had a…[Read more]

This dissertation considers how Peter the Venerable, the abbot of Cluny from 1122 to 1156, implemented reform through a textual program. Peter’s abbacy witnessed a period of fundamental reconstruction, in which not only the practices of Cluniac monasticism, but also its mentality and institutional ethos underwent dramatic change. This period e…[Read more]