Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy?
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- Steven Vanderputten (UGent)
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- The purpose of this paper is to nuance the traditional interpretation of Bishop Adalbero of Laon’s satirical Carmen ad Rotbertum regem as a rebuttal of Cluniac reform and its disruptive effect on early eleventh-century society. Study of the text’s literary antecedents reveals that its criticism was rooted in a tradition of commentaries on the conduct and attitudes of a much larger monastic cohort. Furthermore, comparison of its argument with evidence about the context and with a number of polemical statements regarding the relations between bishops and monastic leaders since the 990s indicates that the author’s focus was on cautioning against abbots’ hypocrisy rather than against a programmatic reform.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HFRJEDY4FBFSE9DEB8W4VDG1
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- Vanderputten, Steven. “Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : A Discourse against Cluniac Reform or a Commentary on Monastic Hypocrisy?” EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, vol. 32, no. 2, 2024, pp. 159–83, doi:10.1111/emed.12699.
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- Vanderputten, S. (2024). Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy? EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 32(2), 159–183. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12699
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- Vanderputten, Steven. 2024. “Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : A Discourse against Cluniac Reform or a Commentary on Monastic Hypocrisy?” EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE 32 (2): 159–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12699.
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- Vanderputten, Steven. 2024. “Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : A Discourse against Cluniac Reform or a Commentary on Monastic Hypocrisy?” EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE 32 (2): 159–183. doi:10.1111/emed.12699.
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- 1.Vanderputten S. Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy? EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE. 2024;32(2):159–83.
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- [1]S. Vanderputten, “Adalbero of Laon’s Poem to King Robert (1023-25/7) : a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy?,” EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 159–183, 2024.
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