title: The Monks of Saint-Thierry in a Property Dispute with the Archbishop of Reims
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metadata.value: Schmidt, Gleb
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:51:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:51:45Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Schmidt G. The Monks of Saint-Thierry in a Property Dispute with the Archbishop of Reims. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 4, рp. 1134–1159. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.407
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.407
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39009
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: On the wave of religious enthusiasm and monastic reform under Cluny’s influence, monasteries
  focused their particular attention on the memory of the institution. Collective memory
  recorded and structured interactions of the brethren with the society, preserving the names of
  benefactors, patrons, and other emblematic figures. It helped communities shape their identities,
  demarcating their monastic networks and protecting and reclaiming their property from
  any exterior intervention or usurpation. This article considers three documents that have almost
  entirely escaped scholarly attention. This small dossier is a significant of example of how
  the brethren of Saint-Thierry in Reims disputed their property rights to the small demesne of Villers-Franqueux against powerful, local noblement and the Archbishops of Reims in the
  third quarter of the 11th century. Engaged in this property dispute, the community deployed
  different legal measures and appealed to exterior royal authority. The monks did not hesitate
  to forge the material and mention an influential person of the moment, Queen Anna, who
  ruled as regent around that time, in order to solidify their position. This manifold and detailed
  ‘protective narrative’ constructed by the monks of Saint-Thierry was also supplemented by
  hagiographical texts intended to provide the community’s claims to Villers-Franqueux with a
  sacred, transcendent legitimacy, which had to present the deeds of the monastery’s adversaries
  as not only illegal but also as going against God’s will. All of this, as the subsequent history
  of Saint-Thierry suggests, allowed the community to overcome in the struggle and retain Villers-
  Franqueux, which became one of the core elements of its demesne.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out in 2020–2021 within the framework of the project “The Courts of Russian
  princesses in Old Rus’ and Western Europe in the System of Power Structures in Middle Ages and Early
  Modern Times (11th–16th centuries)” (St Petersburg State University) supported by the Russian Science
  Foundation grant No. 19-18-00247.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saint-Thierry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: community’s identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cartularized hagiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archbishop of Reims
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: manuscripts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Henry I of France
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Anna Yaroslavna
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Monks of Saint-Thierry in a Property Dispute with the Archbishop of Reims
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metadata.value: Article
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