Abstract
About hermits there was a traditional view: their way of life was to be revered, they themselves were to be suspected because of the absence of any check over their activities. This criticism could not be applied with the same justice to the new communities of hermits since by living under a leader they were deliberately trying to avoid the ‘arbitrary’ self-regulated life. It must, however, be asked whether contemporaries recognised this difference and if they did how they judged the new movement.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ep. 37, MPL, CLXII, col. 50.
Ep. 192, MPL, CLXII, col. 201.
Cited in H. M. Colvin, The White Canons in England (Oxford, 1951), p. 3.
Cited in C. Dereine, ‘La spiritualite “apostolique” des premiers fondateurs d’Affligem’, p. 63.
Tractatus de conversione Pontii de Larazio, Ch. 18, p. 183.
H. Peltier, ‘Hugues de Fouilloy, chanoine régulier, prieur de Saint-Laurent-au-Bois’, Revue du moyen âge latin, II (1946), 29.
Vita Johannis, Ch. 45, pp. 1089–90.
Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis Vol. 1, D. Douie and H. Farmer (eds), Nelson’s Medieval Texts (Edinburgh, 1961), p. 81.
Ordericus Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Bk. VIII, p. 313.
J. Leclercq, ‘Le poème de Payen Bolotin contre les faux ermites’, RB, LXVIII, 81.
Libellus de Diversis Ordinibus, p. 99.
Ibid., p. 29.
Ibid., p. 67.
Beryl Smalley, ‘Ecclesiastical attitudes to Novelty, c. 1100–1250’, Studies in Medieval Thought and Learning (London, 1981), p. 103.
Ibid., p. 107.
Cited in G. Constable, ‘Renewal and Reform in Religious Life’, p. 65.
Copyright information
© 1984 Henrietta Leyser
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Leyser, H. (1984). Reactions to Hermits. In: Hermits and the New Monasticism. New Studies in Medieval History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17589-5_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17589-5_8
Publisher Name: Palgrave, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-32583-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-17589-5
eBook Packages: Palgrave History CollectionHistory (R0)