Valentina Toneatto
Université Lumière Lyon 2, CIHAM UMR 5648, History, Faculty Member
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History of Economic Thought, Economic History, Early Middle Ages (History), Carolingian Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 17 moreMedieval Philosophy, Cultural History, Ancient History, History, Social History, Medieval Church History, Early Church Fathers, Merovingian period, Economic and Social History, History of Capitalism, Monasticism, Byzantine monasticism, History of Monasticism, Early Medieval Monasticism, Late Antiquity, Church History, and History of Christianity edit
Grâce à une réinterprétation de la parole des évêques et des moines, qui associe intimement le spirituel et l’économique, ce livre propose de dépasser les oppositions trop simples entre théorie et pratique, entre spirituel et temporel ou... more
Grâce à une réinterprétation de la parole des évêques et des moines, qui associe intimement le spirituel et l’économique, ce livre propose de dépasser les oppositions trop simples entre théorie et pratique, entre spirituel et temporel ou entre morale et vice, pour mettre au jour les fondements lexicaux de tout discours médiéval sur les échanges et l’administration des biens. Il ne s’agit pas de retrouver les racines de notre économie moderne, mais de mettre en lumière l’existence d’une façon propre à la société médiévale de penser l’économie à travers le lien qu’elle établissait entre l’ici-bas et l’au-delà.
Research Interests:
Christianity, History, Ancient History, European History, Cultural History, and 22 moreEconomic History, Medieval History, History of Economic Thought, History of Christianity, Medieval Studies, Early Christianity, Monastic Studies, History of Capitalism, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Church History, Carolingian Studies, Social History, Byzantine monasticism, Monasticism, Economy, Merovingian and Carolingian, Early Church Fathers, Economic and Social History, Early Medieval Monasticism, Benedictine Monasticism, and Carolingian Economy
Research Interests:
Christianity, History, Ancient History, European History, Cultural History, and 23 moreEconomic History, Medieval History, History of Economic Thought, History of Religion, History of Christianity, Medieval Studies, Early Christianity, Monastic Studies, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Gregorian Reform, Medieval Europe, Church History, Social History, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Monasticism, Administration, History of Monasticism, Early Church Fathers, Early Medieval Monasticism, Benedictine Monasticism, Catholic Church History, and History of Administration
The monastic rules that emerge between the 4th and 7th century show a new type of normativity which aims to organize the life of a community conditioning individual behaviors. While seeming to indicate the positive norms that build the... more
The monastic rules that emerge between the 4th and 7th century show a new type of normativity which aims to organize the life of a community conditioning individual behaviors. While seeming to indicate the positive norms that build the community, rules are not a normative device operating as Roman law. They codify the monk relation to time, space and material goods and submit even the intimate sphere of individual thoughts to the control of superiors. Now, carefully describing life at the monastery, the rule postulates a virtual infinity of degrees of application. To be performed, it requires the constant intervention of an authority able to assess the reality in both its private and material aspects. The principles of evaluation and modulation (of punishments, work, fasting...) establish the authority of the superior over his monks and define shapes and fields of its exercise, making monks equivalent to things entrusted by God to the management of the abbot. In this way monastic rules draw an administrative conception of power and government that is applied to human life in its entirety, reducing to something measurable even the private sphere of individuals and their thoughts.