La vie quotidienne des moines en Orient et en Occident (IVe-Xe siècle). Volume II, Questions transversales
Résumé
With this book, the joint research programme Everyday Life in Eastern and Western Monasticisms (4th-10th century AD) reaches its end. A first volume presented the variety of sources to study daily monastic life for the first centuries, in geographical order. During a second colloquium held in Paris, a comparative perspective was applied to six transversal topics: monastic landscape, the monk’s body, prayer, sociologies, productive economy, creation and dissemination of monastic rules. The present volume gathers twenty-two articles questioning these issues common to Egyptian, Nubian, Syro-Palestinian, Byzantine, North African, Visigothic, Italian, Frankish and Germanic, Anglo-Saxon or Irish monks. Although the approaches are manyfold, we have maintained our ambition to consider all forms of monastic life. Therefore, it was possible to grasp monasticism as a diverse phenomenon, which has been shaped by various environments. If daily monastic life is repetitive and does not always present salient features, it nonetheless mirrors the history of societies within which monks have settled down.
Le programme collectif sur la Vie quotidienne des moines en Orient et en Occident (IVe-Xe siècle) trouve avec le présent ouvrage son achèvement. Un premier volume avait exposé, par régions géographiques, la variété des sources permettant d’étudier le quotidien des moines des premiers siècles. Dans un second colloque, une perspective comparatiste fut appliquée à six thèmes transversaux : le paysage monastique, le corps du moine, la prière, les sociologies monastiques, l’économie productive, la fixation et la diffusion de la norme. Vingt-deux articles interrogent ici ces réalités communes aux moines égyptiens, nubiens, syro-palestiniens, byzantins, nord-africains, wisigothiques, italiens, francs et germaniques, anglo-saxons ou irlandais.