medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If you go to www.newadvent.org and type "monks revolts" in the search engine
area, you'll get quite a few hits of various degrees of relevance to your
query. Here's a sample:
"Gradual relaxation of the rules of poverty led to great possessions, and
thus increased the importance of the lay brothers, who now claimed equality
with the choir-monks. This led to scandalous scenes. In 1185, the lay
brothers at Grandmont rose in open revolt, expelled Prior Guillaume de
Trahinac with 200 of the religious, and set up an intruder." This sort of
happening was not infrequent. Any sort of reform was followed by grumbling,
some of which turned ugly.
WARNING: this will lead to the sometimes much derided old Catholic
Encyclopedia and its out of date bibliography. But it's a start. (And you'll
probably get better advice if we can get away from arguments and concentrate
on medieval religion as George requested.)
I'll also mention the attempts on various abbots' lives, among them Abelard
and Peter the Venerable, the latter being not so much an attempt on his life
as a struggle by the Poncians to regain the abbacy for the disgraced Pons.
MG
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