The Monks of Redon presents for the first time a full text and translation of a unique historical source of the ninth century: an account of the life of a Breton monastery seen from the inside, in the naive but graphic narrative of a contemporary monk. We see how the ascetic traditions of Celtic Brittany and the dynamic religious reforms of the Carolingian emperors, Charlemagne's successors, met at Redon to create a highly successful establishment,even amid frequent warfare, local disorder, and the lurking threat of the Vikings.
The text is accompanied by a later, perhaps eleventh-century, version of the life of the founder of Redon. The relationship between the twotexts, their manuscript-tradition, their language, style, and historical background are fully discussed.
- ISBN10 0851155049
- ISBN13 9780851155043
- Publish Date 7 September 1989
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint The Boydell Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 270
- Language English