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The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300

The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300 BOOK REVIEWS 97 The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300, G. A. Loud, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion (The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2021), xxxiii + 417 pp. The abbey of Cava near Salerno was among the most powerful and influential monastic insti- tutions in the Italian Peninsula during the medieval period. Even in the early fourteenth century, and following a period of stagnation and decline, its wealth was second only to the much better-known monastery of Montecassino. Just as importantly, an archive of 15,000 charters survives for the abbey including 500 documents for the period before 1000. These are nearly all original documents and not later copies redacted into a cartulary. With this astonishing wealth of evidence, it might be thought that Cava’s archive would already support a veritable field of scholarship in its own right, and yet actually neither the abbey nor its sources are particularly well known. Loud’s impressive study on the abbey of Cava opens up this material, demonstrating its immense potential. His study focuses especially on Cava’s social role and economic activities, rather than its spiritual and intellec- tual life and endeavours. The study itself consists of two halves. The first http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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BOOK REVIEWS 97 The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300, G. A. Loud, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion (The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2021), xxxiii + 417 pp. The abbey of Cava near Salerno was among the most powerful and influential monastic insti- tutions in the Italian Peninsula during the medieval period. Even in the early fourteenth century, and following a period of stagnation and decline, its wealth was second only to the much better-known monastery of...
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BOOK REVIEWS 97 The social world of the abbey of Cava c.1020-1300, G. A. Loud, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion (The Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2021), xxxiii + 417 pp. The abbey of Cava near Salerno was among the most powerful and influential monastic insti- tutions in the Italian Peninsula during the medieval period. Even in the early fourteenth century, and following a period of stagnation and decline, its wealth was second only to the much better-known monastery of Montecassino. Just as importantly, an archive of 15,000 charters survives for the abbey including 500 documents for the period before 1000. These are nearly all original documents and not later copies redacted into a cartulary. With this astonishing wealth of evidence, it might be thought that Cava’s archive would already support a veritable field of scholarship in its own right, and yet actually neither the abbey nor its sources are particularly well known. Loud’s impressive study on the abbey of Cava opens up this material, demonstrating its immense potential. His study focuses especially on Cava’s social role and economic activities, rather than its spiritual and intellec- tual life and endeavours. The study itself consists of two halves. The first

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