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The Crise Bénédictine and revival at the Abbey of St. Jacques in Liège c. 1300

The Crise Bénédictine and revival at the Abbey of St. Jacques in Liège c. 1300 JUDITH OLIVER The Crise Bénédictine and revival at the Abbey of St. Jacques in Liège c. 1300* In contrast to the earlier middle ages when the Benedictine order held a preeminent position in the production of illuminated manuscripts, the history of book illumination in the thirteenth century was by and large written without much Benedictine participation. The late twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries mark a nadir in the history of the order which was beset by economic difficulties and plagued by defections to more popular new orders.' However, the decline was not universal nor equally long-lived throughout Western Europe. In the Mosan region, the abbey of St. Jacques in Liege revived at the end of the thirteenth century and was extremely influential in reform movements within the Benedictine order for several centuries thereafter. The spiritual rebirth at St. Jacques found immediate expression in manuscripts written and illuminated for the abbey in the last years of the thirteenth and the first decades of the fourteenth century, which are the main concern of the present study. That such a period of prosperity would ever arrive must have seemed an impossibility to the monks of St. Jacques in 1209 when, after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

The Crise Bénédictine and revival at the Abbey of St. Jacques in Liège c. 1300

Oliver, Judith
Quaerendo , Volume 8 (4): 320 – Jan 1, 1978
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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10.1163/157006978X00197
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JUDITH OLIVER The Crise Bénédictine and revival at the Abbey of St. Jacques in Liège c. 1300* In contrast to the earlier middle ages when the Benedictine order held a preeminent position in the production of illuminated manuscripts, the history of book illumination in the thirteenth century was by and large written without much Benedictine participation. The late twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries mark a nadir in the history of the order which was beset by economic difficulties and plagued by defections to more popular new orders.' However, the decline was not universal nor equally long-lived throughout Western Europe. In the Mosan region, the abbey of St. Jacques in Liege revived at the end of the thirteenth century and was extremely influential in reform movements within the Benedictine order for several centuries thereafter. The spiritual rebirth at St. Jacques found immediate expression in manuscripts written and illuminated for the abbey in the last years of the thirteenth and the first decades of the fourteenth century, which are the main concern of the present study. That such a period of prosperity would ever arrive must have seemed an impossibility to the monks of St. Jacques in 1209 when, after

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Published: Jan 1, 1978

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