Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes

Negotiating the Landscape explores the question of how medieval religious identities were shaped and modified by interaction with the natural environment. Focusing on the Benedictine monastic community of Stavelot—Malmedy in the Ardennes, Ellen F. Arnold draws upon a rich archive of charters, property and tax records, correspondence, miracle collections, and saints' lives from the seventh to the mid—twelfth century to explore the contexts in which the monks' intense engagement with the natu...